Event
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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. |

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

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