"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Did you ever wonder when the common ancestor of people and cockroaches lived?
It's not been a problem recently but in the past I have had to step on a cockroach. I was stepping on a distant cousin. But when did our common ancestor live? It's easy to find out at Find Time of Divergence. It was about 782.7 million years ago.
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