Sentences with phrase «world during the last ice age»
Humans lived in a rather different world during the last ice age, which peaked 20,000 years ago.
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There is no reliable evidence of modern humans elsewhere in the Old World until 60,000 - 40,000 years ago, during a short temperate period in the midst of the last ice age.
Like many parts of the world during the most recent ice ages (the last of which ended about 12,000 years ago), Australia had its share of weird giant animals, including a supersized relative of the Komodo dragon, today's largest land lizard.
Divers from across the world can explore and experience the adventure of an enormous underwater series of caverns carved out during the last great Ice Age here.
The hole, which was formed thousands of years ago during the last ice age, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and divers can enjoy it at their own pace, or join one of the many dive excursions that take in the Great Blue Hole.
But the world was only about 4 °C to 7 °C cooler, on average, during the last ice age, when large parts of Europe and the United States were covered by glaciers.
During the Earth's ice ages the Pacific Ocean stored large amounts of carbon, which for some reason it released again close to the last glacial period's end, warming the world and melting most of the icecaps.
In fact, if humankind was really as dumb as the fans of DPS would have us believe, we wouldn't be around today to hear their doomsaying, because Homo sapiens would have been wiped out during vastly larger environmental swings (in and out of ice ages, for example) in our past, than those expected as a consequence of the burning of fossil fuels to produce the energy that powers our world — a world in which the human life expectancy, perhaps the best measure of our level of «dumbness» or «smartness» — has more than doubled over the last century and continues to grow ever longer.