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Cleopatra lived closer in time to the creation of Twitter than to the creation of the Great Pyramid. The T. Rex lived closer in time to us than to the Stegosaurus. These facts (and evolution) are counterintuitive, since our puny minds cannot grasp the vastness of time.
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Other animals, like the quahog clam (the one used in clam chowder), were known to live 400 years. And the well-known ancient tortoises of the Galápagos Islands poked along for upwards of 100 years. And in 2016, scientists had confirmed that some Greenland sharks might swim the cold waters of the North Atlantic for 500 years. But those were fish and amphibians and mollusks. Bowhead whales were mammals—large and complex—and they routinely lived almost three times longer than your average, healthy human. Once again, evolution had set a different clock, a different beta. But why? And how?
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Chip Walter
Recognize that conflicts are essential for great relationships . . . . . . because they are how people determine whether their principles are aligned and resolve their differences.
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