In 2003, on the island of Flores, archaeologists discovered Homo floresiensis, nicknamed 'the hobbit': barely over a meter tall as an adult, with a brain close to a chimpanzee's in size. Yet it made stone tools. Its remains date to about 100,000 to 60,000 years ago: a miniature cousin, perhaps shaped by island isolation.
Around 2300 BCE, Enheduanna, daughter of King Sargon of Akkad, became high priestess of the Moon god at Ur. She composed hymns to the goddess Inanna and put her name to them. She is the oldest person identified as the author of a literary work, about 1,500 years before Homer.
Squeeze Earth's 4.5 billion years into a single 24-hour day. Homo sapiens shows up around 11:59:54 p.m., roughly six seconds before midnight. All of written history, from Sumerian tablets to today, fits into the final tenth of a second. A cosmic blink.