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The Lower Paleolithic period lasted over 3 million years, during which there many human-like species evolved including toward the end of this period, Homo sapiens.The original divergence between humans and chimpanzees occurred 13 (), however interbreeding continued until as recently as 4 Ma, with the first species clearly belonging to the human (and not chimpanzee) lineage being ...
3rd century BC: Archimedes relates problems in geometric series to those in arithmetic series, foreshadowing the logarithm. [46] 3rd century BC: Pingala in Mauryan India studies binary numbers, making him the first to study the radix (numerical base) in history. [47] 3rd century BC: Pingala in Mauryan India describes the Fibonacci sequence. [48 ...
Pages in category "20th-century inventions" The following 128 pages are in this category, out of 128 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
2 Pre-20th century. 3 20th century. 4 21st century. ... 1999 – Discovery of ... 2010-Over the past two decades, a considerable focus has been directed toward ...
Image credits: Vintage Everyday When we say "the best thing since sliced bread," we're going back to July 6, 1928. It was on that day that the very first automatically sliced commercial loaves of ...
From the first Apple computer to the COVID-19 vaccine, here are the most revolutionary inventions that were born in the U.S.A. in the past half-century.
The 20th century saw mathematics become a major profession. As in most areas of study, the explosion of knowledge in the scientific age has led to specialization: by the end of the century there were hundreds of specialized areas in mathematics and the Mathematics Subject Classification was dozens of pages long. [72]
Who: Frank Epperson, 11-year-old boy. When: 1905. How it was created: When soda pop first hit the market, 11-year-old Frank Epperson decided to save money and make his own. He combined powder and ...