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We cannot claim to take the environment seriously until we acknowledge that a million years is a proper unit of political time. That is the general lesson of history.

— Colin Tudge The Time Before History: 5 Million Years of Human Impact (1995)

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The crucial notion that the world has not always been the way it is now.

The Time Before History: 5 Million Years of Human Impact (1995)

Every society has cause to know that the beneficence of the Earth cannot be taken for granted.

The Time Before History: 5 Million Years of Human Impact (1995)

The effect of natural selection over time is to change the composition of the gene pool.

The Time Before History: 5 Million Years of Human Impact (1995)

A knowledge of our own history is a significant part of culture and, at present, that knowledge is absurdly curtailed.

The Time Before History: 5 Million Years of Human Impact (1995)

Natural selection is not concerned with dignity—only with reproductive success.

The Time Before History: 5 Million Years of Human Impact (1995)

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