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A Brief History of Life and Deep Time

Time:

• 0:00 Formation of Earth
• 0:00-3:00 Meteorite Bombardment
• 4:00 Origin of Life
• 5:36 Oldest Fossils
• 6:00 to 1:52 Abundant Banded Iron-Formations
  • First signs of proliferation
• 2:08 Single-Celled Algae (Acritarchs)
  • First big life
• 6:08 Sexual Reproduction
  • Recombine genes
  • Opened the door for diversity
• 8:28 Seaweeds
• 8:48 Jellyfish
• 9:04 Trilobites
• 9:52 Land Plants
  • First life and land
• 10:24 Coal Swamps
• 10:56 Dinosaurs
• 11:39 Mammals
• 11:58:43 Humans
  • 2 minutes to today

The History of Earth as a 24 hr clock. Humans have only just arrived.

Note: I first came across this image through UW-Madison geology. #science

Thanks to https://mastodon.social/@Sheril/109350942814531855