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by djohnston 375 days ago
Existence, not history. History requires writing.
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layer8 375 days ago
That’s a narrow definition of “history”. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Earth.
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saltcured 374 days ago
The above seems clear as genetic history written in the DNA. Those bottlenecks are a bit like burning the library at Alexandria.
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