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To understand this contradiction, we have to consider the time factor, because the history of the tepuis is extremely long, starting about 1.6 billion years ago with the formation of the rock, and then evolving with the uplift of the region 150 million years ago, after the disruption of the Pangaea supercontinent and the opening of the Atlantic Ocean.

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This was a long delay.

And the man said, "He's come down a long way, hasn't he?" (Laughter) (Applause) There's been kind of a series of epiphanies.

The history of attempts to tinker with the function of the nervous system is long and illustrious.

And we've come a long way since Galvani's and Susana's first successes in making animals twitch or jump.

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