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We, the homosapiens (8), are roughly the eighth major human species. The previous seven major species and groups of species have all become extinct and largely forgotten, possibly as the result of the many Ice Ages. Their names barely live on in scientific language as: australopithecus
rudolfensis (1), Unfortunately we
barely recognize ourselves as the homo sapiens (8), the only surviving and
the shortest lived of all the the human species, at barely 200,000 years
of age. Homo erectus (4) had existed for 1.5 million years but
became extinct. We however, for the first time in geologic history, and as
the first species ever, we have the capacity to steal the sting off the
Ice Age and bypass its tragedy that other species may have suffered,
provided we apply the capacities that we have developed.
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