Mirrors of Mortality Big
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description: How much longer will the human race be around? We’re at Versailles the extravagant palace Louis XIV, the Sun King, had built to show off his own greatness. Today it’s been turned into a museum of humanity, where the Earth-dwellers of the future can come and learn about our downfall. Louis is the longest-reigning monarch in history: 72 years and 110 days. But there’s another king in the Hall of Mirrors, one who ruled the Earth for two and a half million years, the T. rex. And by now, we humans have been here just as long. So is our reign nearly up, or will we find a way through the trouble ahead? The T. rex bowed out when a colossal asteroid slammed into the Gulf of Mexico. Ash and dust choked the sky for years, the sunlight couldn’t get through, and most of the dinosaurs that had survived the impact itself simply starved. But a few very different creatures made it. Leaf-cutter ants the ones living in the tropics of the Americas today took up farming as a direct result of that impact. They cultivated a fungus that could no longer survive up in the open, carried it down into the mound, and fed it leaves gathered from above ground; then they eat the fungus. On its own, a single ant isn’t much of a genius just 250,000 neurons but working together, the colony pulls off something brilliant, like inventing agriculture before anyone else. We call it swarm intelligence. It would take many millions more years before a sharper kind of intelligence turned up in the animal kingdom, and it arrived with another species that got a lot out of teamwork: us, and our stone tools, around 2.5 million years ago. Then, roughly 900,000 years ago, the climate lurched. The ice age, which usually lasted 40,000 years, dragged on for a hundred thousand, and life got much, much harder for every human species, animal and plant. We crashed from around 100,000 individuals down to 1,280. You can still read it in our genes: just 1,280 people had children whose line survives to this day. That’s how clo…
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