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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 ...
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]
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.
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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 ...
220–150 BCE – Apollonius: and Hipparchus: Invention of Astrolabe; 205–86 BCE – Hipparchus or unknown: Antikythera mechanism an analog computer of planetary motions; 129 BCE – Hipparchus: Hipparchus star catalog of the entire sky [5] and precession of the equinoxes
2005 YouTube. Born from the PayPal Mafia in 2005, YouTube is the world's most popular video sharing site. In 2006, Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion. 2006 Blu-ray Disc. A digital optical disc data storage format. It was designed to supersede the DVD format, and is capable of storing several hours of video in high-definition. 2007 Nanowire ...
4th century BC: The first true formal system is constructed by Pāṇini in his Sanskrit grammar. [34] [35] 4th century BC: Eudoxus of Cnidus states the Archimedean property. [36] 4th century BC: Thaetetus shows that square roots are either integer or irrational. 4th century BC: Thaetetus enumerates the Platonic solids, an early work in graph ...