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Over four billion (4,000,000,000) years. A famous illustration puts it this way: if we think of the Earth's existence as one calendar year, beginning on 1 January, the dinosaurs were here just in time for Christmas. (And People? We show up just four seconds before midnight, 31 December.)

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