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user-inactivated  ·  3180 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Most species that disappear today will leave no trace in the fossil record

I'm fascinated by loss of human knowledge over time -- one of the many reasons I enjoyed Anathem so much -- so I do wonder if there will ever come a time when later humans dig up our fossils and gradually piece together that we existed on every continent.