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Prehistoric time line, geologic time scale, photos, facts, maps, and more from National Geographic. Humans have walked the Earth for 190,000 years, a mere blip in Earth's 4.5-billion-year history.

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he proposed the first geological time scale, based on the fairly recently discovered phenomenon of radioactivity. Using his quantititive time scale and other factors, he made an estimate of Earth ...

Humans have remodeled the Earth so profoundly that in 2000 ... McCarthy et al, Would Adding the Anthropocene to the Geologic ...

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