well, getting closer to identifying Sol as a mangetar. Possibly this is one of the 'step-downs' that a magntar's life consists of.
Why are there so few? Because they die quickly. Ah, but how do they die?
They expend magnetic energy by emission becoming a dipole from strictly monopole.
We think Sol is a dipole star but is it?
Right now 5/2014 it has been a monopole for over a year. Analysis of So's past magnetic polarity reversals also reveals 'stalled' reversals where Sol is exclusively monopolarity.
NASA describes the heliosheath during this time of monopolarity in NASA: a star with two poles.
Our 'evolution' is not evolution, it is mutation in response to an altered environment, courtesy of Sol's cycle of continuous decreasing energy emitted from a star stepping down from monopole to dipole.

Our 'evolution' is not evolution, it is mutation in response to an altered environment, courtesy of Sol's cycle of continuous decreasing energy emitted from a star stepping down from monopole to dipole.

JVK will argue that with you in any other more biologically directed article...:-)
Additionally, tho - our "evolution" is a result of environmental changes. Which are, in turn, "evolving" in response to THEIR own (fractal) environmental cues.

It's an inter-stellar Tesla Coil made by the Ancient Aliens to send power to the Earth via all them Obelisks in Egypt.

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ALL magnetic fields are toroidal - if dipole. Toroids aren't necessarily ovular. If mature enuff, time-wise, they will look practically spherical.