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Re:UN to appoint Earth contact for aliens by nandemo on Sunday September 26, 2010 @10:38PM (#1730559)
> Wikipedia has a helpful timeline of life on Earth:

Err, I had no idea that flowers appeared later than mammals and birds. Is that a well-known fact that I should've learned in high school?

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Re:UN to appoint Earth contact for aliens by ugh on Sunday September 26, 2010 @10:48PM (#1730575)
Flowers are complicated, their late arrival is not really surprising. 130 million years is also not exactly recent. It’s not like some cavemen lived in a world without flowers.
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