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Earth is spat out from a star (The Sun)
The extreme conditions on the young, hot planet forbade the development of life for the first few months of its existence -
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History of Earth In a Year
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Single Celled organisms dev. in cooling seas
Meanwhile, a protective atmosphere that includes a layer of ozone is forming, allowing the the first bacteria and blue algae to evolve and shielding the planet from searing solar radiation -
Multi-Celled organisms developed
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Complex Organisms Develop
Life on the planet was still moving, one might say, at a snail’s pace, only in December, more than eleven months into our year, do we find reptiles crawling about. -
First, plants, insects and spider appear
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Reptiles Begin to Crawl Out
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Age of Dinosaurs
Reptiles grow tremendously and the Age of the Dinosaurs begins -
Pangaea breaks apart
Meanwhile, the planet’s continents have been forming, drifting apart, and reforming. The last supercontinent to congeal, Pangaea, begins to break apart to form our current seven continents at the end of the second week of December. -
Early Birds and Mammals Appear
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Extinction of Dinosaurs
Mammals now grow in size and diversity. -
1AM: Australopithecus afarenis begins to walk upright
One particular mammal, the first hominid, known as Australopithecus afarensis, begins to walk upright -
9PM:Ancestors Control Fire
With an hour to spare before the year expires, our stone age ancestors learn to control fire -
11:52PM: Homo Sapiens Arrive
Eight minutes before midnight, Homo sapiens, the contemporary human race, arrives on the scene -
11:59PM: Domestication of Plants and Animals
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11:59:56PM: Modern Globalization,
Christopher Columbus initiates the process of modern globalization at 4 seconds before midnight.
At this point there are about 500 million homo sapiens occupying the planet. Before the end of the day, that number will increase 14-fold. -
11:59:59PM: Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution Sets the world on a rapid transformation
