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Yeah, it failed for me at "human". Damn little history without humans. Then again, I'm also averse to any definition of 'history' that predates written language. Granted, there's some overlap between prehistory and history, owing to the (distorted and increasingly attenuated) existence of oral history traditions, but, at a remove of several millennia, I would prefer to categorize these separately as 'mythology'.

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The three most disruptive transitions in history were the introduction of humans, farming, and industry.

More disruptive than the introduction of life, photosynthesis, eukaryotes, multicellular organisms, vertebrates, plants, land animals, ...?

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