2231: The Time Before and After Land - Revision history

172.70.85.176: Undo revision 344314 by Hawthorn (talk) It's a stretch, but not beyond possibility that the thyme/time homophone is invoked bilaterally in "Bees land on thyme". Perhaps could be rewritten hedged?

2024-06-14T10:23:23Z

Undo revision 344314 by Hawthorn (talk) It's a stretch, but not beyond possibility that the thyme/time homophone is invoked bilaterally in "Bees land on thyme". Perhaps could be rewritten hedged?

Hawthorn: That joke isn't in the comic.

2024-06-14T00:30:10Z

That joke isn't in the comic.

172.71.158.142: /* Explanation of time ranges on the chart */

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‎Explanation of time ranges on the chart

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 |Now
 |Bees are flying insects, and therefore must land in order to rest before taking off again. Now that thyme has evolved, bees are able to land on thyme plants. This is a play on two different meanings of the word "land"; as a noun, it means solid ground, but here, it is a verb which means to alight or stop flying.
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 |Now
 |Bees are flying insects, and therefore must land in order to rest before taking off again. Now that thyme has evolved, bees are able to land on thyme plants. This is a play on two different meanings of the word "land"; as a noun, it means solid ground, but here, it is a verb which means to alight or stop flying.
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 |Now
 |Bees are flying insects, and therefore must land in order to rest before taking off again. Now that thyme has evolved, bees are able to land on thyme plants. This is a play on two different meanings of the word "land"; as a noun, it means solid ground, but here, it is a verb which means to alight or stop flying.
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 |Big Bang
 |Ground-nesting bees evolve
-|This time range also includes the formation of the Earth, a necessary precondition for bees to evolve. Any time before the evolution of bees could be considered "The time before bees". While the chart does not account for the possibility that non-ground-nesting bees may have existed prior to ground-nesting ones, evidence strongly suggests that the common ancestor to all bees nested in the ground rather than forming hives.
+|This time range also includes the formation of the Earth, a necessary precondition for bees to evolve.{{Citation needed}} Any time before the evolution of bees could be considered "The time before bees". While the chart does not account for the possibility that non-ground-nesting bees may have existed prior to ground-nesting ones, evidence strongly suggests that the common ancestor to all bees nested in the ground rather than forming hives.
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 |'''The land before thyme'''