I will not argue about definitions of terms, but there was a recent study that I found linked on washingtonpost.com I believe (Edit: found, added). WP article:

I will not argue about definitions of terms, but there was a recent study that I found linked on washingtonpost.com I believe (Edit: found, added). WP article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/09/19/earth-temperature-global-warming-planet/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/09/1... (https://archive.md/RM8ez https://archive.md/RM8ez) > ...humans evolved during the coldest epoch of the Phanerozoic [the time period from 540 million years ago to the present], when global average temperatures were as low as 51.8 F (11 C). > “We built our civilization around those geologic landscapes of an icehouse,” Judd [one of the study's authors] said. Study (restricted): "A 485-million-year history of Earth’s surface temperature" -- https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk3705 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk3705 > Partitioning the reconstruction into climate states indicates that more time was spent in warmer rather than colder climates Look at the graph - our time is on the very right. We humans developed and are still living in unusually cold times for this planet, historically.