Time since the end of the Neogene geologic period

Time since the end of the Neogene geologic period (2.58 million y)

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If Time since the end of the Neogene geologic period (2.58 million y) was a standard unit ...

  • Age of earliest stone hand axe (2.6 million y)...more would be about as big as Time since the end of the Neogene geologic period
  • Time since first domestication of cattle (10,500 y)...more would be 1/250 of Time since the end of the Neogene geologic period
  • Time since first domestication of cats (10,500 y)...more would be 1/250 of Time since the end of the Neogene geologic period
  • Age of the earliest city (6,500 y)...more would be 1/400 of Time since the end of the Neogene geologic period
  • Age of oldest wooden wheel (5,150 y)...more would be 1/500 of Time since the end of the Neogene geologic period
  • Time since building of Stonehenge (5,120 y)...more would be 1/500 of Time since the end of the Neogene geologic period
  • Time since the earliest writing (5,100 y)...more would be 1/500 of Time since the end of the Neogene geologic period
  • Time since the birth of Pythagoras (2,594 y)...more would be 1/1000 of Time since the end of the Neogene geologic period
  • Time since the birth of Joseph Fourier (256 y)...more would be 1/10000 of Time since the end of the Neogene geologic period

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