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On Sunday, June 16, 2024, Prof. Mark Menamin, geologist and paleontologist from the Department of Geology at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Ma., presented to the Schiller Institute’s online seminar a fascinating connection between paleontology and the Platonic Solids, which appeared to me to be a crucial singularity between life and non-life, during the Proterozoic period of our Earth’s geological evolution, and which he identified as “THE NOT-SO-BORING BILLION: RODINA AND THE ORIGIN OF ANIMALS.
Professor Menamin showed that in a timeline between 1.8 and 0.8 billion years ago, during the Proterozoic era, there appeared to be not much going on just before the origin of animals on Earth. Well, surprise, surprise! The hexagonal pattern of Figure 2 which he presented to his audience is “thought to be made by an ancient animal that is still alive today, but nobody knows what that animal is.”
My hypothesis is that this is an ancestor of the “dodecahedron,” which reflects the spherical ordering of the twelve well-tempered musical tones system including the six Lydian human voices register shifts.
