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We are in what is called an Interglacial. Heard of it? 12000 years ago, there was winter sea-ice in San Diego. Do you know where that is? Sea levels were 300 ft lower than they are today.

In the past million years there is an Interglacial every 100-40 thousand years, and they last about 20-40 thousand years.

At any rate, our Interglacial seems to have peaked around 3-4000 BC when sea levels were 10 ft higher than they are today. This puts about 8000 years before we enter the next Ice Age.

See http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/encyclopediaimages/a/at/atmospheric_co2_with_glaciers_cycles.gif

Jessss is probably just a woman.

How does this make them smarter?? Ants measure distance by the number of steps they take, but they are not thinking in their heads 'one two three...'