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Also, some of the numbers don't seem that big in context. But this situation is 7 million years - plenty of time for evolution to make lots of changes! It jus
by edmundsauto 6y ago
Also, some of the numbers don't seem that big in context. But this situation is 7 million years - plenty of time for evolution to make lots of changes! It just doesn't seem like that big of a gap when we talk about hundreds of millions of years.
The scale is astonishing.
- lisper 6y agoYep. 7 million years is a little under 0.2% of the age of the earth.
- andi999 6y agoAlthough the first 20% were useless in terms of life.
- 082349872349872 6y agoIn a much more recent, much smaller gap, horses originated in North America but died out there, only to be later reintroduced from the Old World. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_the_horse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_the_horse > "The evolution of the horse, a mammal of the family Equidae, occurred over a geologic time scale of 50 million years, ... Much of this evolution took place in North America, where horses originated but became extinct about 10,000 years ago."