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DISCLAIMER, DISCLAIMER, DISCLAIMER!!!

Humans.

We’ve all seen them.

Delightful and despicable as the hairless apes may be…

It’s difficult to imagine the world of today without them.

Yes, they are the ones responsible for global warming, deforestation, de-speciation,

and are the second most prolific polluters the planet has ever produced…

First prize of course going to the microbes which introduced the toxin Oxygen to the environment…

And in such quantities as to bring about the neoproterozoic oxygenation event

AKA the first mass extinction of life on earth as well as bring about a common mainstay in modern respiration…

And though a 2.5 billion year old end of the world event…

was not the end of the world.

We currently living hairless apes should take heed!

While we may consider the earth a safe place, a settled argument,

a steady rock upon which to colonize our civilization…

It is not.

Eventually there comes a change.

And change isn’t a good thing or a bad thing, it’s just change…

But being that mostly hairless apes mostly have an interest in prolonging a changeless existence

we bring you a few of the lessons we have learned over the last 2.5 billion years here on

This week in science

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