The Greenland ice sheet coating 1.7 million square kilometers or about 660 thousand square miles, approximately about 80 percent of the surface of Greenland. If the whole 2.85 million cubic kilometers (684 thousand cubic miles) of ice were to melt, global sea levels would increase 7.2 meters or 24 feet.
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The domestication of plants and animals was triggered by the climatic changes and environmental transformations that happened after the Last Glacial Maximum’s peak about 21 thousand years ago and which proceed to this modern day. These changes made getting food hard. The first domesticate was the wolf (Canis lupus) at least 15 thousand years ago. The Younger Dryas (about 12.9 to 11.7 thousand years BP) was a period of extreme cold and aridity that put stress on Homo sapiens to enhance their foraging approaches.
Read MoreHuman embryo and fetus development from fertilization to birth.
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