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120 m

The sea comes in.

Since the last ice age, the sea has risen about 120 meters.

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1 mm a year

Then the plants.

Lichen comes first, though it is not a plant. Some kinds grow less than a millimeter a year.

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9%

Then the weather.

Water expands by about nine percent when it freezes. Winter after winter, frost splits stone.

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0.1 mm

One cell.

A human begins as one cell.

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