One billion years ago there were no animals or plants and only barely multicellular organisms: > And here’s another cool thing: a little over a billion years a

One billion years ago there were no animals or plants and only barely multicellular organisms: > And here’s another cool thing: a little over a billion years ago, life started experimenting with multicellularity. Imagine single cells deciding to team up and work together! A fossil discovered in Scotland, a tiny ball-shaped thing, is the oldest known example of a multicellular organism. https://geoscience.blog/was-there-life-1-billion-years-ago/ https://geoscience.blog/was-there-life-1-billion-years-ago/ I know OP was just kind of throwing out a big number but it's worth highlighting the orders of magnitude involved here. To put it in terms HN might grok more easily, if modern humans have existed for 300 kB we're talking about one gig.