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”Darwin’s Ungulates persisted for well over 60 million years. They nearly made it to the present, but the last survivors were among the victims of the Ice Age extinctions around 10,000 years ago”
— Jan 20, 2026 06:23PM
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’They pointed to, in the words of Darwin’s opening paragraph, “relations of the present to the past inhabitants.” More than the finches, Darwin saw this continuity of mammal descent—“this wonderful relationship in the same continent between the dead and the living”—as the keystone evidence for his theory that species changed over time.’
— Jan 20, 2026 06:18PM
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