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by nandemo 5745 days ago
> 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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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.