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Female hominin looking backwards
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Woolly Mammoth

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Giant Irish deer braying
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Meganeura
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Sahelanthropus skull
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Lava erupting (Geology)
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Ireland map
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Giant’s Causeway
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Geometric spiral near Kells, Co. Meath
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Geographical distribution map of Indo-European languages

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Stegotetrabelodon
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Jamaican man
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Brazilian indigenous woman
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Maasai woman
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Polar bear walking across parched landscape
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Colliding neutron stars
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Archaean Earth landscape
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Snowball Earth
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The Burren landscape
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Pangaea map with Ireland location
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Giant’s Causeway
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Last Glacial Maximum globe
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Anomalocaris & other Cambrian life
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Pliosaur Liopleurodon
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Archaeopteryx
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Woolly mammoth
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Plesiadapis 

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Source references: F.E. Zachos & R.J. Asher 2018: Mammalian evolution. 

M. Dannemann & J. Kelso 2017: Contribution of Neanderthals to phenotypic variation in modern humans. 

A.A. Macintosh & al. 2017: Prehistoric women’s manual labor. 

R. Bohlender & al. 2016: PgmNr73. 

F. Racimo & al. 2016: AAI in present-day human populations. 

S. H.-Houzel & al. 2014: Brain scaling in mammalian evolution. 

X. Ni & al. 2013: †Archicebus and Haplorhini evolution. 

J.F. Hughes 2012: †Plesiadapis tricuspidens (original image). 

J.S. Friedlænder & al. 2008: Genetics of Pacific islanders. 

S.G. Lucas & Z. Luo 1993: †Adelobasileus cromptoni

T. Rowe 1988: Mammalia definition, diagnosis and origin.

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Lion-headed tamarin 

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Proconsul africanus 

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Homo erectus skull
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Paranthropus boisei
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Ancient human leaving cave 

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Kilclooney More portal tomb, Co. Donegal
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Medieval monk
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Viking warrior
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An Grianán of Aileach sunny
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Giant’s Causeway
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Polar bear swimming underwater
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Neanderthal
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Ben Bulben, Co. Sligo
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Poulnabrone dolmen sunset
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