Fire was discovered on Nov 19th !!!!!!

If that sounds bizarre, read on.
According to a documentary, the process of evolution is so skewed in time that if the entire history of mankind was reduced to a scale of 365 days or a year, Fire was invented only on November 19^th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What this tells us is that the process of evolution has had a completely skewed growth with exponential changes towards the end. Sample this: the last 5 seconds of 31^st December have witnessed innovations and discoveries which have been more than double of what was achieved in the past 364 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes and 55 seconds!!!!The invention of the computer, the Internet, the mobile phone, global warming, nuclear weapons. Things that could have a drastic and long lasting impact on the future of the Earth, as we know it - all in the last 5 seconds.

Ok, now lets integrate this with what is mentioned in Blink. The power of the subconscious. Or what gets hardwired into us without our knowledge based on the sum of our experiences. Some people call it instinct, some intuition.

This might help explain some of my favorite boy-girl differences.Consider this. If human history is 365 days old, contraceptives were popularized and known only in the last 3-4 seconds. So if the female notion that getting impregnated by a man means that she will need him to look after the offspring has been hardwired into the subconscious for 364 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes and 56 seconds, all of Sarah Jessica Parker’s friends cannot take away the powerful notion of monogamy ingrained in women. Neither can 4 seconds of a mirage of equal opportunity for sexes stop that happily married guy from staring at some female anatomy when concept of spreading the his sperms far and wide has been hardwired into him for 364 days!! In other words, boys will be boysJ.

Some more humbling data. According to a recent study, the history of Earth is represented by a monolithic and gigantic Ice age interspersed with thaws. Apparently, the last 10,000 years have signified the biggest thaw in the history of the Earth. So almost all evolution and development has taken place in the last 10,000 years. In other words, mankind and indeed most of the other species you see around are all just symbols of extraordinary evolutionary growth within the single biggest thaw in the history of the Earth’s Ice Age. In B-school they always say, “Get a macro picture”.When you view events from the timeframe of Universe, it doesn’t get more macro than that!!!!