APES LIFE HISTORY ANALOGY If all of life's history (3.7 billion years)  were the distance from Australia to Hawaii (5,065 miles), then the following events would happen at:

Event #	Your Analogy Value (miles)	Years Ago	Description of Events That Affected Life on EARTH	Picture or Videos
1	0	0	Now is an interesting time to live.  It seems we have so many decisions to make and problems to solve, but life is flourishing on our planet right at this moment.  Conditions are right for life.
2	2.3e-5	17	We were born.
3	2.4e-4	180	Fossil fuel revolution.
4	6.9e-4	506	Columbus lands in the new world.
5	7.5e-2	5,500	Invention of writing and the wheel.
6	1.0e-2	7,600	Sahara desert starts to form in northern Africa.
7	1.3e-2	10 thousand	Humans lived as hunter-gatherers.
8	2.4e-2	18 thousand	Homo sapiens arrive in the Americas.
9	2.0e-2	15 thousand	Last ice sheet retreats from Nothern United States.
10	4.3e-2	32 thousand	Oldest known cave paintings.
11	6.8e-2	50 thousand	Homo sapiens arrive in the Middle East and Asia.
12	.13	100 thousand	Homo sapiens appear in the fossil record.
13	.82	600 thousand	Age of Homo Erectus fossils from Ethiopia.
14	1.91	1.4 million	First fire making by humans.
15	2.73	2 million	Pliestocene ice age begins.
16	4.1	3 million	Cooling trend causes ice to from at the North Pole.
17	4.65	3.4 million	Australopithecus afarensis (Lucy) fossils lived in Ethiopia.
18	5.47	4 million	Climate was very warm during the Epoch and sea level was 30 meters higher than today.
19	6.84	5 million	Humans diverge from apes.
20	12.32	9 million	San Andreas fault begins to be active and creates Santa Ana mountains.
21	28.74	21 million	Apes diverge from monkey counterparts.
22	32.85	24 million	Cooling of Earth causes formation of grasslands, Antarctica becomes covered in ice.
23	46.54	34 million	Australia and South America seperate and form Antarctica.
24	68.44	50 million	Primates begin to appear.
25	88.97	65 million	Adaptive radiation of mammals.
26	91.71	67 million	Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction, 50% of all species die out. End of dinosaurs.
27	95.82	70 million	India and Asia collide, forming the Himalayas.
28	136.89	100 million	Insects begin to diversify, first bee is evolved.
29	156	114 million	The world begins to cool, first modern mammals.
30	177.9	130 million	Flowering plants begin to bloom.
31	216	145 million	Altantic ocean first opens.
32	219	160 million	First birds.
33	273.8	200 million	First mammals.
34	280.6	205 million	Triassic-Jurassic extinction, end of large amphibians and reptiles.
35	335.3	245 million	Huge mass extinction at end of Permian period/ close of the Paleozoic era.
36	342.2	250 million	Permian-Triassic extinction, 90% of all species die out.
37	428.5	313 million	First reptiles develop.
38	513.3	375 million	Amphibians evolve.
39	540.7	395 million	First insects on Earth.
40	547.5	400 million	Tetrapods and arthropods appreared during the Devonian age.
41	626.9	458 million	First land plants.
42	698.1	510 million	First fossil fish.
43	766.6	560 million	First appearence of a group of large fossils, known as "Vendian Biota".
44	917.1	670 million	First animals on Earth develop.
45	1059.1	800 million	The supercontinent Rodinia begins to seperate.
46	1232	900 million	Oldest metazoan fossils.
47	1779.5	1.3 billion	Earth was 540 days and 14 months for one year.
48	2190.2	1.6 billion	First blue-green algae.
49	3285.4	2.4 billion	The Earth's atmosphere gets oxygen .
50	5065	3.7 billion years ago	Heterotrophic, anaerobic, prokaryotes show up in the fossil record.  The rounded rocks in the picture are stromatolite heads colonies of bacteria from over 3 billion years ago.