Tag: deep time
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460 million years ago – Leaving the water, animals such as worms and mollusks and crustaceans seek the adventure of weather and gravity
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600 million years ago, light sensitive eyespots evolve into eyesight. The Earth sees herself for the first time.
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700 million years ago, the first Multicellular Organisms emerge. Some organisms begin living together in colonies, finding ways to communicate with each other using chemical messages
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1 billion years ago, increasingly, predator organisms learn to use the complex biomolecules of their prey organisms, thereby saving themselves the effort of making their own.
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1.5 billion years ago, crisis conditions arise such as food shortages, lack of moisture and extreme temperatures.
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2 billion years ago, Despite the enormous drag of its tidal seas the planet is still spinning fast
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2.7 billion years ago, oxygen loving cells emerge!
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3.9 billion years ago, cells invent Photosynthesis.
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4 billion years ago, the rich chemical brew brings forth the wonder of life, as the First Cell emerges.
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4.4 – 4.1 billion years ago – Exuberant volcanoes expel hotly agitated deep earth to the surface.