He gives a good summary of this most interesting discussion, and sustains the maximum estimate of 1600 million years.
The story of life which began inestimable millions of years ago, the adventure of mankind which was already afoot half a million years ago, rises to a crisis in the immense interrogation of to-day.
We know of no bones or other remains in Europe or America of the quasi-human beings of half a million years ago, who made and used these implements.
Half a million years ahead it may be a winterless world with trees and vegetation even in the polar circles.
In a condensed and telescoped manner, of course, for what took the race a million years may be recapitulated by the individual in a week!
According to some authorities Neanderthal man was living in Europe a quarter of a million years ago.
Some would estimate its date at half a million years ago, others at two millions!
Perhaps this means half a million years ago, and the remains occurred along with those of some mammals which are now extinct.
The known part of the geologic history of the John Day Country began with lava flows and deposition of volcanic ash, sandstone, shale, and small lenses of limestone in a late Paleozoic sea more than 250 million years ago.
After erosion had exposed the peridotite and gabbro, the area was submerged again and, during Late Triassic and Early Jurassic time (about 180 million years ago), the Aldrich Mountain area was part of a seaway into which lavas flowed.
And in a million years, who knew what cultures would learn to pilot vessels through space and come his way to revive him?
You may be civilized, you and your people--but I bet it took you a million years of high-speed evolution to do it.
Just outside his port window lurked enough chill to keep his body intact for a million years!
The younger archeologists labeled him benevolently Papa Phyfe, in spite of the irascible temper which came, perhaps, from constantly switching his mind from half a million years ago to the present.
Rather doubtfully, but the indications are around half a million years.
The thing seems so--so fantastic, the restoration of a living creature of half a million years ago.
On sterile slides, the frozen protoplasmic mass slid forward and came to rest at last within the machine for which it had waited half a million years.
There, I told you it was over a million years old.
Working backward, however, it seemed that 25 million years ago, the sun must have been so large as to fill the earth’s orbit.
In that case, the maximum age of the earth was only 25 million years.
The dry mud that had encased it like an airtight coffin, had by now been chipped away by the tiny investigators; but soiled clothing still clung to it, after perhaps a million years.
The crags loomed on all sides, all their jaggedness lost after a million years of erosion under an ocean that was gone.
A launching catapult for the last space ships built by the gods in exodus, perhaps it was--half a million years ago.
You see, it took our ancestors almost a million years to learn how to walk on their hind legs.
This is a difficult act, which every child has to learn anew although the human race has been doing it for over a million years.
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