History of the universe

Human

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Human evolution is the lengthy process of change by which people originated from apelike ancestors. Scientific evidence shows that the physical and behavioral traits shared by all people originated from apelike ancestors and evolved over a period of approximately six million years.

Earth

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Our home planet Earth is a rocky, terrestrial planet. It has a solid and active surface with mountains, valleys, canyons, plains and so much more. Earth is special because it is an ocean planet. Water covers 70% of Earth's surface.

Moon

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What is most widely accepted today is the giant-impact theory. It proposes that the Moon formed during a collision between the Earth and another small planet,

sun

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In a wide expanse of space, gravity drew dust and gas together to create the young solar system. The sun formed first from the vast material, with the planets close behind.

solar system or milky way

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The Sun and the planets formed together, 4.6 billion years ago, from a cloud of gas and dust called the solar nebula. A shock wave from a nearby supernova explosion probably initiated the collapse of the solar nebula. The Sun formed in the center, and the planets formed in a thin disk orbiting around it.

Dinosaurs

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Dinosaurs arose from small dinosauromorph ancestors in the Triassic period, when the climate was harsh and dry.

unicellar

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One theory posits that single-celled organisms evolved multicellularity through a specific series of adaptations

Multicellular life

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All multicellular organisms, from fungi to humans, started out life as single cell organisms. These cells were able to survive on their own for billions of years before aggregating together to form multicellular groups.

Big Bang event

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The Big Bang is how astronomers explain how the universe began. It's the idea that the universe started out as a single point, then expanded and stretched to grow as large as it is now, and it's still expanding