Earth’s “Boring Billion”: A Period of Unexpected Evolutionary Advancements Imagine compressing 4.54 billion years of Earth’s history into a single year. Simple life would appear early, before February’s end. However, complex life forms like ourselves wouldn’t emerge until August. The period from August to November—a billion years—would seem remarkably uneventful, a time now known as … Read more
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