HISTORYREPEATSITSELF?

You come into school on a Monday morning, another five days until the weekend. Week A, Week B, Week A, Week B …. A loop. It feels like history is repeating itself. But it’s not (even if it feels the same). Mark Twain is credited as having said “History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.” Some examples of similar events happening again over the years are (a) mass extinction events, (b) pandemics and (c) mass migration. I’m not even going to mention parents nagging again and again and again! Looking quickly at these in turn, starting with mass extinction events, since life began on Earth there have been five periods with much higher extinction rates than normal (each a ‘mass extinction event’). The last was when the dinosaurs died out (not Godzilla) The diagram below shows these extinction events

Source: https://sjcinspire.com/mass-extinction-events/ This dinosaur is not sleeping extremely deeply. It is extinct

Written by Sylvester Year 5