Organic Evolution TimeLine

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Organic Evolution TimeLine 2012 AD - 4.54 bya

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Sample timeline mainly using points compiled by The New Scientist (www.newscientist.com/article/dn17453-timeline-the-evolution-of-life.html).

Category: Organic Evolution

1. 2012 AD, MapTime (Destination)
2. 1989 AD, Cold War Ends
3. 1945 AD, Hiroshima
4. 1776 AD, American Independence
5. 5 kya, Writing
6. 5.5 kya, Bronze Age
7. 35 kya, Cave Art
8. 72 kya, Clothing/Jewellery
9. 195 kya, Homo sapiens appears
10. 1.6 mya, Use of Fire
11. 1.8 mya, Out of Africa
12. 2.5 mya, Stone Tools
13. 5.8 mya, Bipedal walking
14. 6 mya, Humans diverge from Chimps
15. 20 mya, Hominidae
16. 65 mya, K/T Extinction
17. 70 mya, Grass
18. 130 mya, Flowers
19. 150 mya, Archaeopteryx (early birds)
20. 180 mya, Mammals
21. 200 mya, Warm bloodedness
22. 250 mya, Permian Extinction
23. 397 mya, Tetrapods
24. 400 mya, Insects and woody plants
25. 465 mya, Land Plants
26. 500 mya, Arthropod crawls onto land
27. 535 mya, Cambrian Explosion
28. 540 mya, Chordates
29. 630 mya, Bilateral Symmetry
30. 900 mya, Multicellularity
31. 2 bya, Eukaryotic Cells
32. 2.15 bya, Photosynthesis
33. 2.3 bya, Snowball Earth
34. 2.4 bya, Oxygen Atmosphere
35. 3.5 bya, Single Celled Life
36. 4.54 bya, Formation of Earth (Start Location)