If Time since the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species (163 y) was a standard unit ...
Age of the earliest city (6,500 y)...more would be 40 x Time since the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species
Time since earliest wheeled vehicles (4,000 y)...more would be 25 x Time since the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species
Time since the start of the Iron Age (3,200 y)...more would be 20 x Time since the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species
Time since the death of Shakespeare (404 y)...more would be 2.5 x Time since the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species
Period of Neptune's orbit (164.8 y)...more would be about as big as Time since the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species
Time since the publication of Dickens's Tale of Two Cities (163 y)...more would be about as big as Time since the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species
Lifespan of human being (80 y)...more would be 1/2 of Time since the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species
Time since first IBM Personal Computer launched (41 y)...more would be 1/4 of Time since the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species
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