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11 700 years – 1.2 centimetres The climate heats up 5–10 °C during a few decades. The glacier melts and the edge retreats quickly in… Read More »The ice retreats

20 000 years – 2 centimetres The Scandinavian glacier covers all of Finland. The southern edge is as far as northern Germany. Southwestern Finland’s bedrock… Read More »The last ice age

23 000 years – 23 centimetres Due to the spinning precession of the Earth’s axis, the celestial poles move in 25 700 year cycles. The… Read More »Precession and the Polar Star

30 years 000 – 30 centimeters Southern Finland is a productive steppe with wandering mammoths. Europe has cave lions, woolly rhinoceri and giant goats. Many… Read More »Neanderthals disappear

60 000 years – 6 centimetres The glaciers grow and bind a lot of water. Ocean levels drop and the Red Sea dries up. Modern… Read More »Modern human moves to Europe

200 000 years – 20 centimetres Modern human, Homo sapiens, evolves in Africa. The change in the inclination of the Earth’s axis and the changing… Read More »The modern human

1 million years – 1 metre The Solar System wanders, with respect to the neighbouring stars, about 65 light years in a million years. The… Read More »The changing night sky

3 million years – 3 metres The Isthmus of Panama rises and the thermal exchange between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans ceases. The waters in… Read More »The current glacial period begins

4 million years – 4 metres Ardipithecus ramidus wanders on two feet in Africa. North America has horned rodents that resemble ground hogs. Kuva: Ardipithecus… Read More »The bipedal hominin

6 million years – 6 meters The rise of the bedrock at the Strait of Gibraltar and the fluctuations of the sea-level isolate Mediterranean. As… Read More »Eastern Africa dries up into savannah