let climateMilestones = [{"Nid":"1009","name":"<italic>Homo sapiens <\/italic> almost becomes extinct","From_Time":null,"To_Time":"-90000","Time_Text":"Between 90,000 and 70,000 years ago","summary":"White mudcracks in an old African lake bed indicates severe drought. Due to widespread droughts and climate fluctuation during this time, the human species may have been reduced to no more than 10,000 adults of reproductive age.","image":"http:\/\/humanorigins.si.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/media_library\/public\/images\/timeline\/icons\/mud%20cracks%20new.jpg.webp?itok=cHuyQOez"},{"Nid":"1010","name":"High climate variability in eastern Africa","From_Time":"-50000","To_Time":"-356000","Time_Text":"From 356,000 \u2013 50,000 years ago","summary":"Earth's elongated orbit around the sun during this time led to a long period of arid-moist fluctuation in Africa. Important changes in behavior, associated with the origin of <italic>Homo sapiens,<\/italic>  also occurred in Africa.","image":null},{"Nid":"1011","name":"Greatest climate fluctuations of the past 3 million years","From_Time":"-500000","To_Time":"-800000","Time_Text":"Beginning 800,000 years ago","summary":"Climate fluctuation widened around 800,000 years ago. The fastest brain size increase in early humans occurred during the era of greatest climate fluctuation.","image":null},{"Nid":"1012","name":"<italic>Homo erectus<\/italic> survives habitat change in the Nihewan Basin, China","From_Time":"-1320000","To_Time":"-1660000","Time_Text":"1.66 \u2013 1.32 million years ago","summary":"At Majuangou, China, scientists found stone tools in four layers dating from 1.66 to 1.32 million years old. Fossil pollen in these layers  shows that vegetation changed a lot during this time. The toolmaker, probably <italic>Homo erectus,<\/italic> survived in all of these habitats.","image":"http:\/\/humanorigins.si.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/media_library\/public\/images\/timeline\/icons\/CH4-NihewanBasinChina.jpg.webp?itok=VClWsCyR"},{"Nid":"1014","name":"Spread of grassland and drier habitat in East Africa","From_Time":"-1700000","To_Time":"-2000000","Time_Text":"2.0 \u2013 1.7 million years ago","summary":"In excavations at Kanjera South, in western Kenya, fossil animals and soil chemistry indicates that early toolmakers lived in a dry grassland habitat by around 2 million years ago. In other times and places they lived in moist, wooded habitats. ","image":"http:\/\/humanorigins.si.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/media_library\/public\/images\/timeline\/icons\/site.jpg.webp?itok=_w6QdCc-"},{"Nid":"1016","name":"Rise in worldwide climate fluctuation","From_Time":"-2400000","To_Time":"-3000000","Time_Text":"3.0 \u2013 2.4 million years ago","summary":null,"image":null},{"Nid":"1017","name":"Greater climate variability in Africa","From_Time":"-10","To_Time":"-3000000","Time_Text":"Beginning about 3 million years ago","summary":"Sediment layers like these, found in a cliff bordering the Mediterranean Sea, provide a record of wet periods (dark bands) and dry periods (light bands). Nile River sediments show that these alternating bands reflect major shifts in Africa\u2019s climate every several thousand years. The intensity of the dark vs light bands, and the difference between moist and arid periods, began to increase around 3 million years ago.","image":"http:\/\/humanorigins.si.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/media_library\/public\/images\/timeline\/icons\/CH9-Gibliscemi.jpg.webp?itok=XXh_Jp9v"},{"Nid":"1018","name":"<italic>A. afarensis <\/italic> survives climate changes at Hadar site, Ethiopia","From_Time":"-2950000","To_Time":"-3370000","Time_Text":"3.37 \u2013 2.95 million years ago","summary":"For at least 400,000 years, members of Lucy\u2019s species, <italic> Australopithecus afarensis, <\/italic> lived at Hadar, Ethiopia. The amount of forest, woodland, and grassland changed during that period as the climate fluctuated between wet and dry, and cool and warm.","image":"http:\/\/humanorigins.si.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/media_library\/public\/images\/timeline\/icons\/afarensis_AL288CH-10_0.jpg.webp?itok=0ArVPIeX"},{"Nid":"1019","name":"Increase in climate variability","From_Time":"-10","To_Time":"-7000000","Time_Text":"Around 6 million years ago","summary":null,"image":null}]