Man's First Appearance
L=tT us then note a few of the age estimates made for some of the interesting events in the world’s history. The first appearance of modern man may have been about fifty thousand years ago, while his man-like forerunners, which were not his direct aricestors, may have been in existence for something over half a million years before. These two figures are not put forward with any claim for accuracy for they cannot be based on either of the fairly
accurate methods we have just described. Next we May note that it is about sixty or seventy million years since mammals became the chief animals on the land, replacing the huge reptiles which had dominated the land during the preceding hundred
million years. It is about ninety million years since the chalk which forms the famous white cliffs of Dover was laid down on the sea floor, or the older
coal seams in New Zealand were made; about a hundred and thirty since the first birds appeared, two hundred since the most important coal-seams in Australia . were formed, and about two hundred and thirty since those of North America, and of Europe, were laid down; three hundred million years since the fossiliferous rocks near
sveeIton in New Zealand were accumulated as shelly sediments on the sea-floor, and almost four hundred million years since there were deposited the oldest of the fossiliferous rock in New Zealand, those: at Preservation Inlet.-(From "The Age of the Earth," by Professor W. N.
Benson, 4YA, May 28.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 51, 14 June 1940, Page 10
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