chronology

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The "long chronology" proposes that humans arrived around 60,000 years ago.

From Science Daily • Apr. 9, 2026

Initially intriguing, the jumbled chronology eventually proves to be largely decorative until a disappointing late-reel twist explains why the labored device was deployed in the first place.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

“To say this chronology represents, at a minimum, a concerning breach of the spirit of the dismissal order is an understatement, if not an outright violation of it,” Cannon wrote.

From Slate • Feb. 26, 2026

Yet it is debatable whether Mr. Livingston’s new chronology is any more meaningful than the old one.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

Dryden’s chronology is right: ‘these last hundred years’ takes us back, almost exactly, to the nova of 1571.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton