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UNIVERSE
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1) We are a tiny part of a universe that is made of an infinite amount of
space, matter and time.

  
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2) There is more space than matter.
  
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3) All matter is made of particles of light.
  
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11) The universe has no start or end. The same light particles that have always
been, continue to move in the space that has always been.

  
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5) Matter and motion can never be created or destroyed. Matter can never be
converted into motion, and motion can never be converted into matter.

  
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6) Light particles become trapped with each other and so form structures such
as protons, atoms, molecules, planets, stars, galaxies, and clusters of
galaxies.

  
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7) All of the billions of galaxies we see are only a tiny part of the universe.
We will never see most of the universe because no light particles from there
can ever reach us.

  
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4) There is a pattern in the universe. Light particles move from where there is
less space to where there is more space. As an empty space becomes filled,
light particles form gas clouds called nebuli, and then galaxies of stars.
Living objects grow around stars and pull stars together to form globular
clusters and then form a globular (also called "elliptical") galaxy. Living
objects need matter to stop their decay. Globular galaxies have a regular input
and output of light particles. When a volume of space becomes very dense, more
light particles exit than enter the space. Light particles that exit to more
empty spaces form new nebuli and galaxies and so this cycle continues. Stars at
our scale may be light particles at a much larger scale, just as light
particles at our scale may be stars at a much smaller scale. This system may go
on infinitely in both larger and smaller scale.

  
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13) The Milky Way Nebula starts to form.
  
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6180) The first star in the Milky Way Galaxy forms.
  
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6181) Living objects in the Milky Way Galaxy reach another star using a ship.
  
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6182) The first globular cluster of 100,000 stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.
  
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16) The star Earth orbits forms.
  
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17) Planets form around our star. Like the star, they are red hot with liquid
rock and metals on the surface. Lighter atoms move to the surface of the
planets. Larger planets are surrounded by gas.

  
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30) The moon of Earth is captured.
  
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21) Planet Earth cools. Molten liquid rock turns into a solid thin crust. Water
condenses and falls to the surface, filling the lowest parts of the land to
make the first Earth oceans, lakes, and rivers.

  

LIFE
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18) Larger molecules like amino acids, phosphates and sugars, the components of
living objects, form on Earth.

  
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19) Nucleic acids form on Earth.
  
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167) The first proteins on Earth. Transfer RNA molecules evolve (tRNA), and
link amimo acids into proteins using other RNA molecules as a template.

  
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168) The ribosome evolves. The ribosome may function as a protocell, providing
a platform for more efficient protein production. A single RNA may contain all
the instructions needed to make more ribosomes.

  
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40) A protein can copy RNA.
  
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166) A protein can assemble DNA from RNA.
  
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212) A protein can copy DNA molecules.
  
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20) The first cell on earth. DNA is surrounded by a membrane made of proteins.
  
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23) The first virus evolves.
  
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28) Glycolysis evolves. Cells can make ATP from glucose.
  
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44) Fermentation evolves. Cells can make lactic acid.
  
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213) Cells make alcohol.
  
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183) Cells make the first lipids on Earth; (fats, oils, waxes).
  
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64) Operons allow selective protein assembly.
  
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322) Nitrogen fixation. Cells can make nitrogen compounds like ammonia from
Nitrogen gas in the air.

  
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287) (Filamentous) multicellularity evolves in prokaryotes.
  
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316) Cell differentiation evolves in filamentous prokaryotes, creating
organisms with different kinds of cells.

  
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77) Archaea (also called archaebacteria) evolve.
  
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193) Bacteria "Hyperthermophiles" evolve (Aquifex, Thermotoga).
  
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292) Prokaryote flagellum evolves.
  
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180) Archaea: Euryarchaeota {YRE-oR-KE-O-Tu} (methanogens, halobacteria).

Earliest cell response to light.

  
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181) Archaea: Crenarchaeota (Sulfolobus).
  
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58) Cells produce their own food (autotrophy).
  
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43) Photosynthesis evolves in bacteria. Cells emit free Oxygen.
This is the main system
responsible for producing the Oxygen now in the air of earth.

  
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57) First aerobic cell. These cells use oxygen to convert glucose into CO2, H2O
and ATP. Cellular respiration.

  
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36) Oldest physical evidence for life: ratio of carbon-13 to carbon-12.
Akilia Island, Western Greenland  
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45) Oldest sediment, the "Banded Iron Formation" begins.
Banded Iron Formation is
sedimentary rock that spans 2 billion years, made of silica with alternating
layers of black-colored reduced iron and red-colored oxidized iron, and
represents a seasonal rise and fall of free oxygen in the ocean, possibly
linked to photosynthetic organisms.

Akilia Island, Western Greenland  
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37) Oldest fossil evidence of life: stromatolites.
Warrawoona, Western Australia, and, Fig Tree Group, South Africa  
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39) Oldest fossil of an organism.

Two and a half billion years will pass before the first animal evolves.

Warrawoona, northwestern Western Australia  
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71) Budding evolves in prokayotes.
  
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66) Earliest acritarch fossil (unicellular microfossils with uncertain
affinity).

(Moodies Group) South Africa  
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178) Bacteria Firmicutes (FiRmiKYUTEZ) evolve (Gram positive bacteria: cause of
botulism, tetanus, anthrax). First endospores.

  
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76) Bacteria Proteobacteria evolve (Rickettsia {ancestor of all mitochondria},
gonorrhoea, Salmonella, E. coli).

  
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177) Gender and sex (conjugation) evolve in bacteria.
  
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176) Bacteria Planctomycetes {PlaNK-TO-mI-SETS}.
  
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179) Bacteria Actinobacteria {aKTinO-BaK-TER-Eu} (source of streptomycin).
  
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174) Bacteria Spirochaetes (SPIrOKETEZ) (Syphilis, Lyme disease).
  
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175) Bacteria Bacteroidetes {BaKTERrOEiTEZ}.
  
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217) Bacteria Chlamydiae {Klo-mi-DE-I or Klo-mi-DE-E}.
  
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6309) Bacteria Chlorobi (green sulphur bacteria).
  
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6310) Bacteria Verrucomicrobia (VeR-rUKO-mI-KrO-BEo).
  
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80) Endo and ectocytosis. Cells can now eat other cells.
  
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65) Linear (instead of circular) chromosome.
  
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60) The first eukaryotic cell evolves. The first cell with a nucleus. This is
the first protist. The nucleus may be a captured bacterium, virus or plasmid,
or has grown from part of the membrane or cell wall.

  
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62) Earliest molecular fossil evidence of eukaryotes (sterane molecules).
Northwestern Australia  
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207) Cytoskeleton forms in eukaryote cytoplasm.
  
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208) Eukaryote flagellum evolves.
  
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72) Mitosis evolves in Eukaryote cells.
  
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170) Bacteria live on land.
  
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73) Eukaryote sex evolves. First diploid cell (2 sets of chromosomes). First
zygote. Chance of variety and mutation increased.

  
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206) Meiosis (division of diploid into haploid cells).
  
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296) Gender in eukaryotes evolves. Sex (cell and nucleus fusion) between two
isogamous (same size) cells which have different shapes.

  
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297) Sex between two different sized cells (heterogamy or anisogamy) evolves in
protists.

  
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295) Two-step meiosis (diploid DNA copies and then the cell divides twice into
four haploid cells).

  
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171) Bacteria "Deinococcus-Thermus".
  
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172) Bacteria Cyanobacteria {SIeNOBaKTEREu} (ancestor of all plastids).
  
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315) Bacteria Chloroflexi evolve.
  
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56) Banded Iron Formation starts to appear in many places.
  
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59) Start of 200 million year ice age.
  
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290) The nucleolus (a sphere in the nucleus that makes ribosomes).
  
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198) The endoplasmic reticulum evolves, a membrane system that extends from the
nucleus, important in the synthesis of proteins and lipids.

  
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199) Eukaryote Golgi Apparatus evolves (packages proteins and lipids into
vesicles for delivery to targeted destinations).

  
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48) Oldest Red Beds. Evidence of free oxygen on Earth.
  
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63) A bacterium related to Rickettsia, is captured by a eukaryote and through
endosymbiosis, becomes the mitochondria, organelles of most eukaryotes.

  
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301) Haplodiplontic life cycle (alternating diploid and haploid life stages).
  
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99) First homeobox genes evolve. These genes regulate the building of major
body parts.

  
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61) Earliest large filamentous multicellular fossil (Grypania).
(Banded Iron Formation) Michigan, USA  
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46) End of the Banded Iron Formation.
  
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197) The ancestor of all living eukaryotes divides into bikont and unikont
descendants. Bikonts lead to all Chromalveolates, Excavates, Rhizaria, and
Plants. Unikonts lead to all Amoebozoa, Animals and Fungi.

  
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202) Protists Amoebozoa (amoebas and slime molds). Feeding using pseudopods.
  
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220) Protists Opisthokonts (ancestor of Fungi, Choanoflagellates and Animals).
  
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38) (Filamentous) multicellularity in Eukaryotes evolves.
(earlest red alga fossils:) (Hunting Formation) Somerset Island, arctic
Canada  
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67) First "plastids". Cyanobacteria form plastids through symbiosis, within a
eukaryote cell. Like mitochondria, these organelles copy themselves and are not
made by the cell DNA.

  
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209) First plant (ancestor of all green and red algae and land plants).
  
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219) Plant Red Algae (Rhodophyta) evolves.
  
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323) Protists Excavates (Giardia {JE-oR-DE-u}).
  
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187) A captured red alga becomes a plastid in the ancestor of all
chromalveolates.

  
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15) Differentiation in multicellular eukaryote. Gamete (or spore) cells and
somatic cells. Unlike gamete cells, somatic cells are asexual (non-fusing), and
are not omnipotent. Start of death by aging.

  
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88) Protists "Chromalveolates" {KrOM-aL-VEO-leTS} (ancestor of Chromista
{Haptophytes and Stramenopiles {STro-meN-o-Pi-lEZ}} and Alveolates
{aL-VEO-leTS}).

  
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201) Earliest certain eukaryote fossils (red algae).
(Hunting Formation) Somerset Island, arctic Canada  
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221) First fungi.
  
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6280) Protists Alveolates {aL-VEO-leTS} (ancestor of all Ciliates,
Apicomplexans, and Dinoflagellates {DInOFlaJeleTS}).

  
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86) Plant Glaucophyta.
  
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188) Green Algae evolves (volvox, sea lettuce, Spirogyra).
  
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75) Fungi Microsporidia.
  
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87) Excavate Discicristates {DiSKIKriSTATS} (includes euglenids).
  
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97) Eukaryote eye evolves, first three-dimensional response to light.

Eyes evolve at least eight times independently in eukaryotes.

  
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203) Colonialism evolves in Eukaryote.
  
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169) Protists Stramenopiles {STro-meN-o-Pi-lEZ} (also called Heterokonts)
(ancestor of all brown and golden algae, diatoms, and oomycota {Ou-mI-KO-Tu)).

  
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304) Protists Haptophytes (Coccolithophores {KOK-o-lit-O-FORZ}).
  
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313) Protists Dinoflagellates {DI-nO-Fla-Je-leTS}.
  
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223) Fungi Chytridiomycota {KI-TriDEO-mI-KO-Tu).
  
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324) Protists Mesomycetozoea {me-ZO-mI-SE-TO-ZO-u} (or DRIPs).
  
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309) Protists Oomycota {Ou-mI-KO-Tu} (Water molds).
  
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326) Protists Choanoflagellates.
  
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6281) Protists Rhizaria {rI-ZaR-E-u} (ancestor of all Radiolaria, Foraminifera
and Cercozoa).

  
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286) Multicellularity evolves in a free moving Protist. This allows larger free
moving organisms to evolve.

  
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81) First animal and first metazoan, sponges (Porifera). Metazoans are
multicellular and have differentiation (their cells perform different
functions). There are only three major kinds of metazoans: sponges, cnidarians,
and bilaterians.

  
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224) Fungi "Zygomycota" (bread molds).
  
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517) Male gonad (testis {TeSTiS} or testicle) evolves in a sponge.
  
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319) Protists "Radiolaria".
  
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321) Protists "Foraminifera".
  
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79) Animal "Placozoa".
  
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312) Protists Ciliates (paramecium).
  
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314) Protists "Apicomplexa" {a-Pi-KoM-PleK-Su} (Malaria).
  
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41) Cells that group as tissues evolve in metazoans.
  
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83) First nerve cell (neuron), and nervous system evolve in a metazoan.
Earliest touch and sound detection.

  
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96) Muscle cells evolve in metazoans.
  
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225) Closeable mouth evolves in metazoans.
  
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414) Animals Radiata: Ctenophores {TeNOFORZ} evolve (comb jellies).
  
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458) Fungi "Glomeromycota" {GlO-mi-rO-mI-KO-Tu}.
  
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82) Radiata Cnidarians {NIDAREeNS} evolve (sea anemones, corals, jellyfish).
  
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226) Fungi "Basidiomycota" {Bo-SiDEO-mI-KO-Tu} (most mushrooms, rusts, club
fungi).

  
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227) Fungi "Ascomycota" {aS-KO-mI-KO-Tu} (yeasts, truffles, Penicillium,
morels).

  
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523) Female gonad (ovary) evolves in a Cnidarian.
  
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107) Bilateral species evolve (two sided symmetry).
Earliest animal eye and brain
(ganglion, memory). First triploblastic species (third embryonic layer: the
mesoderm).

  
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459) Cylindrical gut, anus, and through-put of food evolves in a bilaterian.
  
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532) An intestine evolves in a bilaterian.
  
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593) The genital pore, vagina, and uterus evolve in a bilaterian.
  
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660) The penis evolves in a bilaterian.
  
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6311) Earliest extant bilaterian: Acoelomorpha (acoela flat worms and
nemertodermatida).

  
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6328) Protists "Cercozoa".
  
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95) Fluid filled cavity, the coelom (SEleM) evolves in a bilaterian.
  
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91) Start of Ediacaran {EDEoKRiN} soft-bodied invertebrate fossils.
Sonora, Mexico|Adelaide, Australia| Lesser Karatau Microcontinent,
Kazakhsta  
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98) Red blood cells and blood channels evolve in a bilaterian. First blood
vessels.

  
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93) Bilaterians Protostomes evolve, ancestor of all arthropods and molluscs.
Many protostome phyla evolve at this time. Protostomes are divided into two
major groups: the Ecdysozoa {eK-DiS-u-ZOu} and the Lophotrochozoa
{LuFoTroKoZOu}. The Lophotrochozoa, is subdivided into the Platyzoa {PlaTiZOu}
and the Trochozoa.

  
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131) First shell (or skeleton) evolves.
(Doushantuo Formation) Beidoushan, Guizhou Province, South China  
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318) Protostomes Ecdysozoa {eK-DiS-u-ZOu} evolve. Ecdysozoa are animals that
molt (lose their outer skins) as they grow.

  
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331) Protosomes Lophotrochozoa {Lu-Fo-Tro-Ku-ZO-u} evolve.
  
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105) Bilaterians Deuterostomes evolve. Ancestor of all Echinoderms (iKIniDRMS
}, Hemichordates, and Chordates.

  
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311) Bilaterians Chaetognatha {KE-ToG-nutu} (Arrow Worms).

Earliest teeth. Animals start to eat other animals.

  
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345) Deuterostomes Hemichordates evolve (pterobranchs {TARuBrANKS}, acorn
worms).

The free swimming younger form of Pterobranch may evolve into tunicates and
then the first fish.

  
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346) Deuterostome Echinoderms (iKIniDRMS } (sea cucumbers, sea urchins, sand
dollars, star fish).

  
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347) Deuterostome Phylum Chordata evolves.
Chordates are a very large group that include
all tunicates {TUNiKiTS}, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds.

  
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348) Earliest extant chordate: Tunicates {TUNiKiTS} evolve (sea squirts).
  
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349) First fish.
  
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6290) Earliest extant fish, Lancelets {laNSleTS}. First liver and kidney.
  
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328) Ecdysozoa Round worms.
  
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329) Platyzoa Rotifers.
  
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333) Trochozoa Phoronids {FerOniDZ}.
  
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334) Trochozoa Brachiopods {BrAKEOPoDZ}.
  
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335) Trochozoa Entoprocts {eNtoProKTS}.
  
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101) Segmentation evolves.
  
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336) Trochozoa Bryozoans.
  
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6297) The Cambrian radiation, (or "Cambrian explosion"), the rapid
diversification of multicellular animals between 542 and 530 million years ago
that results in the appearance of many of the major phyla of animals. An
increase of animals with shells.

  
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104) Platyzoa Platyhelminthes {PlaTEheLmiNtEZ} (flatworms).
  
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133) The arthropods trilobites evolve.
  
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6287) Platyzoa Gastrotrichs {GaSTreTriKS}.
  
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461) The first circulatory system evolves in bilaterians.
  
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506) The first heart evolves in bilaterians.
  
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341) Trochozoa Nemertea {ne-mR-TEu} (ribbon worms).
  
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342) Trochozoa Mollusks evolve. Mollusks includes snails, clams, mussels, and
the cephalopods: squids and octopuses.

  
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338) Ecdysozoa Arthropods evolve (insects, crustaceans).
  
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339) Ecdysozoa Onychophorans {oniKoFereNS}.
  
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340) Ecdysozoa Tardigrades {ToRDiGRADZ}.
  
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343) Trochozoa annelids (segmented worms).
  
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350) Vertebrates evolve. This Subphylum contains most fish, and all amphibians,
reptiles, mammals, and birds.

  
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351) Jawless fish.
  
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6314) During the Ordovician (ORDeVisiN} the number of genera will quadruple.
  
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244) Non-vascular plants evolve, Bryophyta, (Liverworts, Hornworts, Mosses).
  
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398) Plants live on land.
Caradoc, Libya  
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353) Jawed vertebrates evolve, Gnathostomata {notoSTomoTo} First vertebrate
teeth.

Oceans  
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360) Ray-finned fishes.
Ocean and fresh water  
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6172) The first lung evolves.
Ocean (presumably)  
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402) The first animals live on land, arthropods: millipedes.
  
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377) Lobefin fish.
  
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236) Vascular plants evolve.
  
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405) The first forests.
Gilboa, New York, USA  
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380) The first tetrapods evolve (organisms with four feet), the amphibians.
First limbs (arms and legs) and fingers.

Fresh water, Greenland (on the equator)  
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379) The first vertebrates live on land (amphibians).
Fresh water, Greenland (on the equator)  
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237) Vascular plants ferns evolve.
  
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243) The first plant seed evolves.
Scotland  
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361) Ray-finned fishes, Sturgeons and Paddlefish.
  
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362) Ray finned fishes: Bichirs {BiCRZ}.
  
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384) The hard-shell egg evolves. The Amniota {aMnEOtu} (ancestor of reptiles,
mammals and birds).

Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland  
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6331) The tetrapod Amniota divide into the Sauropsida {SOR-roP-SiDu} (which
includes reptiles and birds) and the Synapsida {Si-naP-Si-Du} (which includes
mammals).

(earliest possible Synapsid fossil: Cumberland group, Joggins formation.)
Joggins, Nova Scotia, Canada  
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381) Amphibians: Caecilians.
  
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411) The first flying animal, an arthropod insect.
Upper Silesian Basin, Czech Republic  
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238) Gymnosperms (seed plants).
  
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245) The first flowering plant (angiosperm). Almost all grains, beans, nuts,
fruits, vegetables, herbs and spices come from plants with flowers.

  
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385) Reptiles evolve.
(Joggins Formation) Nova Scotia, Canada  
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382) Amphibians: Frogs.
  
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383) Amphibians: Salamanders.
  
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387) Reptiles: Turtles.
  
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307) Protists: Brown Algae evolve.
  
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308) Protists: Diatoms.
  
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364) Ray-finned fishes: Gars.
  
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389) Reptiles: Tuataras {TUeToRoZ}.
(Islands of) New Zealand  
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102) Largest mass extinction of history.
  
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452) Supercontinent Pangea (PaNJEe) forms.
  
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368) Ray-finned fishes: Bowfin fishes.
  
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392) Reptiles: crocodiles, allegators, caimans {KAmeNS}.
  
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232) Earliest warm-blooded and hair growing animal.
  
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412) Reptiles: dinosaurs evolve.
(Ischigualasto Formation) Valley of the Moon, Ischigualasto Provinvial Park,
northwestern Argestina  
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126) Mammals evolve. First nipple, mammary gland, and breast.
(Dockum Formation) Kalgary, Crosby County, Texas, USA  
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428) The first flying vertebrate (Pterosaur).
  
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369) Teleost (TeLEoST) fishes evolve.
  
210,000,000 YBN
390) Reptiles: iguanas, chameleons, and spiny lizards.
  
210,000,000 YBN
391) Reptiles: snakes, skinks, and geckos.
  
210,000,000 YBN
6313) Teleosts: Bonytongues.
  
200,000,000 YBN
370) Teleosts: eels and tarpons.
  
190,000,000 YBN
358) Jawed fishes: squalea {SKWAlEo} evolve, rays, skates, sawfishes.
  
190,000,000 YBN
359) Jawed fish: "Galea" evolve, (sharks), (great white, hammerhead, nurse
sharks).

  
190,000,000 YBN
371) Teleosts: herrings and anchovies.
  
190,000,000 YBN
6289) Supercontinent Pangea splits into Laurasia and Gondwana. The northern
part, Laurasia will form North America and Europe. The southern part, Gondwana
will form South America and Africa.

Pangea  
180,000,000 YBN
456) Earliest extant mammals, monotremes {moNeTrEMZ} evolve.
Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea  
179,000,000 YBN
250) Flowers: "Magnoliids" evolve (amborella, magnolia, nutmeg, avocado, black
pepper).

  
179,000,000 YBN
6288) Earliest extant flower "Amborella".
  
171,000,000 YBN
247) Flowers: ("Nymphaeales") {niM-FE-o-lAZ} (water lilies).
  
170,000,000 YBN
372) Teleosts: carp, minnows, piranhas.
  
170,000,000 YBN
373) Teleosts: salmon, trout, pike.
  
165,000,000 YBN
457) Marsupials evolve.
China  
160,000,000 YBN
163) The Eutheria. Placental mammals evolve.
(Daxigou) Jianchang County, Liaoning Province, China  
155,000,000 YBN
253) Flowers Eudicots {YUDIKoTS} evolve (the largest lineage of flowers).
  
154,000,000 YBN
252) Flowers: Monocots (lilies, palms, orchids, grasses).
  
154,000,000 YBN
265) Flowers "Base Monocots" evolve (asparagus, onion, garlic, agave, aloe,
orchid, lily).

  
150,000,000 YBN
374) Teleosts: Lightfish and Dragonfish.
  
150,000,000 YBN
393) Birds evolve. The first feather.
  
147,000,000 YBN
254) Flowers: "Basal Eudicots" (buttercup, poppy, macadamia, sycamore).
  
130,000,000 YBN
375) Teleosts: Perch, seahorses, flying fish, pufferfish, barracuda.
  
130,000,000 YBN
376) Teleosts: cod, anglerfish.
  
124,000,000 YBN
267) Flowers "Core Eudicots" evolve (cactus, buckwheat, rhubarb, venus flytrap,
beet, spinach, grape plants).

  
120,000,000 YBN
463) Neornithes {nEORnitEZ} evolve (modern birds).
  
114,000,000 YBN
275) Flowers: "Ericales" (kiwi, ebony, persimmon, blueberry, cranberry, brazil
nut, pitcher plants, tea).

  
109,000,000 YBN
256) Flowers: "Rosids" (pomegranate, clove, guava, allspice, eucalyptus).
  
105,000,000 YBN
491) Ancestor of all placental mammal Afrotheres evolves.
Africa  
101,000,000 YBN
285) Flowers "Asterales" {aSTRAlEZ} evolve (tarragon, daisy, artichoke,
lettuce, dandelion).

  
100,000,000 YBN
465) Birds "Ratites" evolve (ostrich, emu, cassowary {KaSOwaRE}, kiwis).
  
95,000,000 YBN
283) Flowers "Apiales" {APEAlEZ} (dill, celery, cilantro, carrot, parsnip,
fennel, parsley, ivy) evolve.

  
95,000,000 YBN
498) Mammals "Xenarthrans" {ZeNoRtreNZ} evolve (Sloths, Anteaters, Armadillos).
  
94,000,000 YBN
261) Flowers "Fabales" {FoBAlEZ} evolve (beans, pea, peanut, soy, lentil).
  
91,000,000 YBN
259) Flowers: "Malpighiales" {maLPiGEAlEZ} evolve (coca, rubber tree, cassava,
poinsettia, willow, poplar, aspen).

  
90,000,000 YBN
270) Flowers "Brassicales" {BraSiKAlEZ} evolve (horseradish, mustard, cabbage,
broccoli, radish, papaya).

  
89,000,000 YBN
262) Flowers "Rosales" {ROZAlEZ} evolve (hemp, hop, jackfruit, strawberry,
raspberry, apple, cherry, peach, apricot, almond).

  
89,000,000 YBN
279) Flowers "Gentianales" {JeNsinAlEZ} evolve (oleander, coffee).
  
87,000,000 YBN
266) Flowers "Commelinids" {KomelIniDZ} evolve (palms, coconut, corn, rice,
barley, oat, wheat, rye, sugarcane, bamboo, grass, pineapple, papyrus, turmeric
{TRmRiK}, banana, ginger).

  
86,000,000 YBN
278) Flowers "Solanales" {SOlanAlEZ} evolve (bell pepper, tomato, tobacco,
potato, eggplant).

Americas  
85,000,000 YBN
263) Flowers "Cucurbitales" (KYUKRBiTAlEZ} evolve (melon, cucumber, pumpkin,
squash, zucchini).

Americas  
85,000,000 YBN
264) Flowers "Fagales" {FaGAlEZ} evolve (Birch, Hazel {nut}, Chestnut, Beech
{nut}, Oak, Walnut, Pecan, Hickory).

  
85,000,000 YBN
466) Birds "Galliformes" {GaLliFORmEZ} evolve (Chicken, Turkey, Pheasant,
Peacock, Quail).

  
85,000,000 YBN
467) Birds "Anseriformes" {aNSRiFORmEZ} evolve (waterfowl: ducks, geese,
swans).

  
85,000,000 YBN
499) The ancestor of all placental mammal "Laurasiatheres" evolves.
Laurasia  
82,000,000 YBN
271) Flowers "Malvales" {moLVAlEZ} evolve (okra, cotton, cacao {KoKoU}).
Americas  
82,000,000 YBN
272) Flowers "Sapindales" {SaPiNDAlEZ} evolve (maple, citris, cashew, mango,
pistachio).

Americas  
82,000,000 YBN
500) Laurasiatheres "Insectivora" evolves (shrews, moles, hedgehogs).
  
80,000,000 YBN
482) Marsupials: American and true opossums.
Americas  
80,000,000 YBN
501) Laurasiatheres "Chiroptera" {KIroPTRu} evolves (fruit bats, echolocating
bats).

Laurasia  
78,000,000 YBN
502) Laurasiatheres "Cetartiodactyla" {SiToRTEODaKTilu} evolve (ancestor of all
Artiodactyla {oRTEODaKTiLu}: camels, pigs, ruminants, hippos, and all Cetacea
{SiTASEu or SiTAsEu}: Whales, Dolphins).

Laurasia  
76,000,000 YBN
503) Laurasiatheres "Perissodactyla" {PeriSODaKTilu} evolve (Horses, Tapirs
{TAPRZ }, Rhinos).

Laurasia  
75,000,000 YBN
492) Afrotheres: Aardvark.
Africa  
75,000,000 YBN
504) Laurasiatheres "Carnivora" evolve (Cats, Dogs, Bears, Weasels, Hyenas,
Seals, Walruses).

Laurasia  
74,000,000 YBN
280) Flowers "Lamiales" {lAmEAlEZ} evolve (mint, basil, oregano, rosemary,
sage, thyme, sesame, olive, ash, lilac, jasmine).

  
73,000,000 YBN
484) Marsupials: Bandicoots and Bilbies {BiLBEZ}.
Australia  
70,000,000 YBN
507) Placental Mammals: Rabbits, Hares, and Pikas {PIKuZ}.
  
70,000,000 YBN
516) Placental Mammals: Tree Shrews and Colugos {KolUGOZ}.
  
65,500,000 YBN
397) Mass extinction.
  
65,000,000 YBN
468) Birds "Gruiformes" {GrUiFORmEZ} evolve (cranes and rails).
  
65,000,000 YBN
470) Birds "Strigiformes" {STriJiFORmEZ} evolve (owls).
  
65,000,000 YBN
485) Marsupial moles.
Australia  
65,000,000 YBN
486) Marsupials: Tasmanian Devil, Numbat {nuMBaT}.
Australia  
65,000,000 YBN
488) Marsupials "Diprotodontia" {DIPrOTODoNsEu} evolve (Wombats, Kangeroos,
Possums, Koalas).

Australia  
65,000,000 YBN
508) Rodents evolve. "Myomorpha" {MIemORFu} (rats, mice, gerbils, voles {VOLZ},
lemmings, hamsters).

  
65,000,000 YBN
509) Rodents: Beavers.
  
63,000,000 YBN
587) Primates evolve. Opposable thumb.
Africa or India  
62,000,000 YBN
495) Afrotheres: Elephants.
Africa  
59,000,000 YBN
497) Afrotheres: Manatee and Dugong.
  
58,000,000 YBN
511) Rodents: Squirrels.
  
58,000,000 YBN
524) Primates: Tarsiers {ToRSERZ}.
  
54,000,000 YBN
810) Last common ancestor between hippos with dolphins and whales.
  
51,000,000 YBN
513) Rodents: Old World Porcupines.
  
50,000,000 YBN
518) Primates: Lorises {LORiSEZ}, Bushbabies, Pottos {PoTTOZ}.
  
49,000,000 YBN
474) Birds "Falconiformes" {FaLKoNiFORmEZ} evolve (falcons, hawks, eagles, Old
World vultures).

  
49,000,000 YBN
515) Rodents: New World porcupines, guinea pigs, capybaras {KaPuBoRoZ}.
  
45,000,000 YBN
519) Primate: Aye-aye {I-I}.
  
40,000,000 YBN
525) Primates: New World Monkeys evolve.
Africa  
37,000,000 YBN
471) Birds "Apodiformes" {oPoD-i-FORmEZ} evolve (hummingbirds, swifts).
  
37,000,000 YBN
475) Birds: Cuculiformes {KUKUliFORmEZ} evolve (cuckoos, roadrunners).
  
37,000,000 YBN
476) Birds "Piciformes" {PESiFORmEZ} evolve (woodpeckers, toucans).
  
30,000,000 YBN
520) Primates: True Lemurs.
  
28,000,000 YBN
477) Birds "Passeriformes" {PaSRiFORmEZ} (perching songbirds) evolve. This
order includes many common birds: crows, jays, sparrows, warblers,
mockingbirds, robins, orioles, bluebirds, vireos {VEREOZ}, larks, finches.

  
28,000,000 YBN
811) Last common ancestor of dolphins and whales.
  
25,000,000 YBN
531) Primates: Old World Monkeys.
(perhaps around Lake Victoria) Africa  
24,000,000 YBN
662) The ancestor of all Hominoids (Gibbons and Hominids) loses its tail.
  
23,000,000 YBN
478) Monotreme: Echidna.
Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea  
23,000,000 YBN
479) Monotreme: Duck-Billed Platypus.
Australia and Tasmania  
18,000,000 YBN
537) Primates: Gibbons.
South-East Asia  
14,000,000 YBN
542) Earliest extant Hominid: Orangutans.
South-East Asia  
7,000,000 YBN
543) Hominids: Gorillas evolve.
Africa  
6,000,000 YBN
544) Chimpanzees evolve. Last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans.
Africa  
4,400,000 YBN
546) Hominid: Ardipithecus. Earliest bipedal primate.
Lukeino Formation, Tugen Hills, Kenya, Africa  
4,000,000 YBN
547) Hominid: Australopithecus (x-STrA-lO-PitiKuS} evolves.
Sterkfontein, South Africa  
2,700,000 YBN
564) Hominid: Paranthropus {Pa raN tru PuS} evolves.
Africa  
2,500,000 YBN
447) Hominids: Homo Habilis evolve (earliest member of the genus "Homo").

This is when the human brain begins to get bigger.

Africa  

SCIENCE
2,500,000 YBN
455) Oldest formed stone tools.
Gona, Ethiopia  
2,000,000 YBN
545) Hominids: Bonobos {BunOBOZ}.
Africa  
1,800,000 YBN
563) Homo erectus {hOmO ireKTuS} evolves (from Homo habilis).
Africa  
1,700,000 YBN
449) Homo erectus moves into Eurasia from Africa.
  
1,500,000 YBN
583) Controlled use of fire.
(Swartkrans cave) Swartkrans, South Africa  
1,000,000 YBN
589) Homo erectus evolves less body hair.
  
970,000 YBN
200) Hominids wear clothing.
Happisburgh, Norfolk, UK  
400,000 YBN
615) Spear.
Schöningen, Germany.  
200,000 YBN
548) Humans (Homo sapiens) evolve.
Ethiopia, Africa  
200,000 YBN
590) Human language of thirty short sounds begins to develop.
  
130,000 YBN
450) Neanderthals.
Europe and Western Asia  
100,000 YBN
[98000 BC]
257) Theory of Gods.
Africa  
95,000 YBN
[93000 BC]
594) Homo sapiens move out of Africa into Eurasia. Beginning of differences in
race.

  
46,000 YBN
[44000 BC]
577) Earliest water ship. Sapiens reach Australia.
  
40,000 YBN
[38000 BC]
604) Oil lamp.
Southwest France  
40,000 YBN
[38000 BC]
5871) Earliest musical instrument, a flute.
Hohle Fels Cave, Germany  
32,000 YBN
[01/01/30000 BC]
1262) Painting.
Southern France  
32,000 YBN
[30000 BC]
602) Weaving and textiles.
Dzudzuana Cave, Georgia  
31,700 YBN
[29700 BC]
42) Humans raise dogs.
Goyet cave, Belgium  
29,000 YBN
[27000 BC]
6215) Ceramics.
Dolni Věstonice, Czechoslovakia  
23,000 YBN
[21000 BC]
6231) Stone wall.
(Theopetra Cave) Kalambaka, Greece  
19,000 YBN
[17000 BC]
6184) Cereal gathering.
Near East (Southwest Asia Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi
Arabia)  
18,000 YBN
[16000 BC]
603) Pottery.
(Yuchanyan cave), Daoxian County, Hunan Province, China  
17,000 YBN
[15000 BC]
6225) Rope.
Lascaux, France  
13,000 YBN
[11000 BC]
578) Humans enter America.
Mexico City and Arlington Canyon on Santa Rosa Island, California, USA  
11,500 YBN
[9500 BC]
719) Rice grown.
Yangtze (in Hubei and Hunan provinces), China  
11,000 YBN
[9000 BC]
606) Oldest city, Jericho.
Jericho, (modern West Bank) Palestine  
10,000 YBN
[8000 BC]
614) Bow and arrows.
Stellmoor (near Hamburg), Germany  
9,300 YBN
[7300 BC]
6185) Wheat grown.
southeastern Turkey and northern Syria  
9,240 YBN
[7240 BC]
1478) Squash grown.
Paiján, Peru  
8,000 YBN
[6000 BC]
6220) Earliest drum.
Moravia, Czeck Republic  
7,000 YBN
[5000 BC]
627) Metal melting and casting (copper).
Belovode, Eastern Serbia  
6,250 YBN
[4250 BC]
720) Corn grown.
Oaxaca, Mexico  
6,000 YBN
[4000 BC]
6232) Mud brick house.
Ur, Mesopotamia (modern Iraq)  
5,500 YBN
[3500 BC]
646) The wheel (for pottery).
Mesopotamia (and a similar pottery wheel from Choga Mish, Iran)  
5,500 YBN
[3500 BC]
1260) Writing (on clay tablets). First numbers. First stamp (or seal).
Sumer (Syria, Sumer, Highland Iran)  
5,500 YBN
[3500 BC]
6223) Timekeeping device.
China and Chaldea  
5,490 YBN
[3490 BC]
702) Cotton grown.
Northwestern Peru|Indus valley  
5,310 YBN
[3310 BC]
704) Animal pulled vehicles.
(TRB - Funnel Beaker culture) Bronocice, Krakow, Poland  
5,300 YBN
[01/01/3300 BC]
1261) Symbols of the Alphabet.
Sumer  
5,000 YBN
[01/01/3000 BC]
1265) Written symbols combined to form words.
Jemdet Nasr  
5,000 YBN
[3000 BC]
628) Bronze casting.
Tell Judaidah, Turkey|Egypt  
5,000 YBN
[3000 BC]
6219) Stringed musical instrument.
Sumer (modern Iraq)  
5,000 YBN
[3000 BC]
6222) Inclined plane.
Egypt?  
4,600 YBN
[2600 BC]
1271) Oldest written story, the Sumerian flood story.
Sumer  
4,500 YBN
[2500 BC]
6230) Earliest dice and boardgame.
Ur, Mesopotamia  
4,300 YBN
[2300 BC]
667) Glass making.
Mesopotamia  
4,130 YBN
[2130 BC]
6234) Musical horn.
Lagash, Mesopotamia  
4,000 YBN
[2000 BC]
733) Lock and key.
Nineveh  
3,842 YBN
[1842 BC]
712) All phonetic language and alphabet.
(Caanan modern:) Palestine|(turquoise mines ) Serabit el-Khadem, Sinai
Peninsula  
3,500 YBN
[1500 BC]
723) Pulley.
Nimroud, Assyria  
3,000 YBN
[1000 BC]
740) Water wheel.
  
2,910 YBN
[910 BC]
635) Iron melted and casted.
Tell Hammeh (az-Zarqa), Jordan  
2,529 YBN
[529 BC]
772) Earth described as a sphere.
Croton, Italy  
2,467 YBN
[467 BC]
1894) Particle (or wireless) communication.
Greece (presumably)  
2,460 YBN
[460 BC]
841) Theory that all matter is made of atoms.
  
2,260 YBN
[260 BC]
663) Lever.
Mesopotamia  
2,260 YBN
[260 BC]
822) Screw.
Syracuse, Sicily  
2,260 YBN
[260 BC]
882) The rotation of the earth around its own axis once a day and around the
Sun once a year is understood.

(Mousion of Alexandria) Alexandria, Egpyt  
2,246 YBN
[246 BC]
898) The size of Earth correctly calculated.
Alexandria, Egypt  
2,140 YBN
[140 BC]
1070) Paper.
Xian, China  
2,056 YBN
[56 BC]
1045) Light described as atoms that move very fast.
Rome, Italy  
1,950 YBN
[50 AD]
1078) Steam engine.
Alexandria, Egypt  
1,917 YBN
[83 AD]
766) Compass.
China (more specific)  
1,400 YBN
[600 AD]
1111) Windmill.
Persia (Iran)  
1,150 YBN
[850 AD]
1144) Gunpowder.
China  
1,080 YBN
[920 AD]
6183) Norwegian explorers reach North America.
L'Anse Aux Meadows, Newfoundland  
1,040 YBN
[960 AD]
6186) Rocket.
China  
868 YBN
[1132 AD]
1146) Gun.
China  
792 YBN
[1208 AD]
1392) Theory that all matter is made of light.
Lincoln, England (where de luce is written)  
508 YBN
[10/12/1492 AD]
1450) Humans from Europe reach America.
(probably) San Salvador  
392 YBN
[1608 AD]
1618) Telescope and microscope.
Middelburg, Netherlands (presumably)  
391 YBN
[1609 AD]
1619) That planets have elliptical orbits is understood.
Weil der Stadt (now part of the Stuttgart Region in the German state of
Baden-Württemberg, 30 km west of Stuttgart's center)  
390 YBN
[01/??/1610 AD]
1605) Moons of Jupiter seen and their period determined.
Venice, Italy  
357 YBN
[1643 AD]
1692) Vacuum.
Florence, Italy  
337 YBN
[1663 AD]
2247) Static electricity generator.
Magdeburg, Germany (presumably)  
328 YBN
[02/19/1672 AD]
1829) Theory that light is a particle revived.
Cambridge, England  
322 YBN
[1678 AD]
3592) Direct neuron activation. Human contracts muscle with electricity.
Amsterdam, Netherlands (presumably)  
313 YBN
[1687 AD]
1845) Law of gravitation, matter attracts with a force that is the product of
their masses, and the inverse of their distance squared.

Cambridge, England (presumably)  
255 YBN
[11/04/1745 AD]
1972) Storage of electricity.
Pomerania?, Prussia (coast of Baltic Sea between Germany and Poland)  
231 YBN
[1769 AD]
1206) Self-propelled vehicle.
England  
209 YBN
[1791 AD]
2175) Remote neuron activation (muscle contracted remotely by light particles).
Bologna, Italy  
200 YBN
[03/20/1800 AD]
2250) Electric battery.
Pavia, Italy  
200 YBN
[1800 AD]
2179) Invisible light recognized.
Slough, England  
199 YBN
[11/12/1801 AD]
2405) Frequencies of light measured.
London, England  
191 YBN
[1809 AD]
2481) Electric light.
London, England  
184 YBN
[1816 AD]
2351) The first photograph.
Chalon-sur-Saône, France  
180 YBN
[04/21/1820 AD]
2454) Electricity understood to cause magnetism. First electromagnet.
Copenhagen, Denmark  
180 YBN
[1820 AD]
3374) Gas combustion engine.
(Magdalen College) Cambridge, England  
179 YBN
[09/11/1821 AD]
2701) Electric motor.
(Royal Institution in) London, England  
171 YBN
[03/27/1829 AD]
2844) Electricity produced by moving a wire near a magnet.
Pavia, Italy  
169 YBN
[02/17/1831 AD]
2702) Electrical transformer.
(Royal Institution in) London, England  
169 YBN
[09/??/1831 AD]
2705) The (dynamic) electric generator (constant current produced).
(Royal Institution in) London, England  
168 YBN
[1832 AD]
2514) Plastic.
Nancy, France  
161 YBN
[07/29/1839 AD]
3308) Light converted to electricity (photoelectric effect).
(University of Paris) Paris, France  
155 YBN
[04/??/1845 AD]
2839) Humans recognize spiral galaxies.
(Birr Castle) Parsonstown, Ireland  
154 YBN
[09/23/1846 AD]
3073) Planet Neptune seen.
Berlin, Germany (and Paris, France)  
143 YBN
[03/24/1857 AD]
3999) Sound recorded mechanically.
Paris, France  
142 YBN
[07/01/1858 AD]
3033) Theory of evolution. Humans understand their descent from a single
ancestor and the process of natural selection.

(Linnean Society), London, England  
141 YBN
[10/20/1859 AD]
3087) Humans understand that light spectra can be used to determine atomic
composition.

(University of Heidelberg), Heidelberg, Germany  
139 YBN
[10/26/1861 AD]
3997) Microphone, telephone and speaker. Sound converted to electricity and
back to sound again.

(built in workshop behind Reis's house and cabinet in Garnier's Institute,
Friedrichsdorf, demonstrated before Physical Society) Frankfort, Germany  
125 YBN
[08/28/1875 AD]
5575) Direct neuron reading. Electricity in nerve cells measured.
Liverpool, England  
120 YBN
[1880 AD]
5839) Artificial muscle.
(University of Giessen) Giessen, Germany  
115 YBN
[05/23/1885 AD]
4017) Invisible particle communication (radio).
(private lab) Menlo Park, New Jersey, USA  
111 YBN
[06/21/1889 AD]
4021) Motion picture camera.
(Piccadilly) London, England  
102 YBN
[1898 AD]
4698) Magnetic writing and reading of data.
(Copenhagen Telephone Company) Copenhagen, Denmark  
97 YBN
[03/23/1903 AD]
4493) Airplane.
Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, USA  
94 YBN
[12/21/1906 AD]
4788) Electric switch and amplifier.
(De Forest Radio Telephone Company) New York City, New York, USA  
93 YBN
[11/13/1907 AD]
354) Helicopter.
  
92 YBN
[06/06/1908 AD]
3616) Image sent and received by radio.
London, England  
82 YBN
[06/21/1918 AD]
6199) Electronic read and write memory.
(City and Guilds Technical College) London, UK  
66 YBN
[03/17/1934 AD]
4755) Atomic fusion.
(Cambridge University) Cambridge, England   
66 YBN
[05/??/1934 AD]
5275) Atomic fission.
(University of Rome) Rome, Italy  
63 YBN
[05/22/1937 AD]
5515) Picture of individual atoms.
(Siemens and Halske) Berlin, Germany  
62 YBN
[06/22/1938 AD]
5448) Image of virus.
(Berliner Medizinischen Gesellschaft/Berlin Medical Society) Berlin,
Germany  
61 YBN
[04/30/1939 AD]
5835) Bipedal robot.
(Westinghouse Electric Corporation) Mansfield, Ohio, USA  
47 YBN
[04/02/1953 AD]
5660) Double helix structure of DNA understood.
(Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) Cambridge, England  
46 YBN
[05/05/1954 AD]
5649) The maser.
(Columbia University) New York City, New York, USA  
43 YBN
[10/04/1957 AD]
5486) The first human-made satellite.
(Baikonur Cosmodrome at Tyuratam, 370 km southwest of the small town of
Baikonur) Kazakhstan (, Soviet Union)  
41 YBN
[09/14/1959 AD]
5597) A ship from Earth impacts the moon of Earth.
(Baikonur Cosmodrome) Tyuratam, Kazakhstan (was Soviet Union)  
40 YBN
[04/22/1960 AD]
5768) The laser.
(Hughes Research Laboratories) Malibu, California  
39 YBN
[04/12/1961 AD]
5601) Human orbits the Earth.
Saratovskaya oblast, Russia (was U.S.S.R.)  
38 YBN
[10/26/1962 AD]
6201) Laser writing and reading of data.
(Winston Research Corporation) Los Angeles, California, USA  
34 YBN
[03/01/1966 AD]
5613) Ship impacts Venus.
Planet Venus  
31 YBN
[07/21/1969 AD]
655) Humans land and walk on the moon of Earth.
Moon of Earth  
29 YBN
[11/14/1971 AD]
5618) Ship orbits another planet (Mars).
Planet Mars  
29 YBN
[11/27/1971 AD]
5619) Ship impacts Mars.
Planet Mars  
29 YBN
[12/02/1971 AD]
5620) Ship lands on Mars.
Planet Mars  
27 YBN
[12/03/1973 AD]
5622) Ship reaches Jupiter.
Planet Jupiter  
25 YBN
[10/20/1975 AD]
5623) Ship lands on Venus.
Planet Venus  
21 YBN
[09/01/1979 AD]
388) Ship reaches Saturn.
Planet Saturn  
14 YBN
[01/24/1986 AD]
5628) Ship reaches Uranus.
Planet Uranus  
12 YBN
[12/14/1988 AD]
6194) Microscopic motor.
(University of California at Berkeley), Berkeley, California, USA  
11 YBN
[08/25/1989 AD]
5629) Ship reaches Neptune.
Planet Neptune  
10 YBN
[01/17/1990 AD]
6191) Individual atoms moved.
(IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center) San Jose, California,
USA  
5 YBN
[12/07/1995 AD]
396) Ship orbits Jupiter.
Jupiter  
1 YAN
[06/28/2001 AD]
6192) Microscopic radio chip (RFID).
(Hitachi) Japan  
3 YAN
[04/04/2003 AD]
6195) Nanometer scale motor.
(University of California at Berkeley), Berkeley, California, USA  
4 YAN
[07/01/2004 AD]
5641) Ship orbits Saturn.
Planet Saturn  
8 YAN
[12/10/2008 AD]
3886) Remote neuron reading. Image of what the eyes are seeing captured
remotely.

(Collaboration between researchers at two Japanese Universities, two research
Institutes, and ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories) Kyoto, Japan  
FUTURE
15 YAN
[2015 AD]
332) Sound a brain hears is recorded remotely.
  
15 YAN
[2015 AD]
6193) Microscopic camera.
  
18 YAN
[2018 AD]
6208) Radio device functions as cell organelle.
  
20 YAN
[2020 AD]
337) Remote neuron writing using microscopic devices in neurons.
  
20 YAN
[2020 AD]
6197) Microscopic flying device.
  
25 YAN
[2025 AD]
365) Thought-images recorded and shown publicly.
  
25 YAN
[2025 AD]
680) Thought-audio recorded and played out loud. Humans start to communicate by
thought image and sound only.

  
25 YAN
[2025 AD]
6198) Microscopic flying camera.
  
40 YAN
[2040 AD]
366) Artificial muscle bipedal robot, lighter than motor robots.
unknown  
50 YAN
[2050 AD]
790) Humans walk around with robot servants.
  
55 YAN
[2055 AD]
6302) Cancer stopped by microscopic devices.
unknown  
100 YAN
[2100 AD]
367) Most humans communicate only by images and sounds of thought.
  
100 YAN
[2100 AD]
793) Helicopter-cars form a second line of traffic above the streets.
  
100 YAN
[2100 AD]
794) 100 ships with humans orbit Earth.
  
140 YAN
[2140 AD]
687) Large scale transmutation: common atoms like Iron converted into more
useful atoms like Hydrogen and Oxygen using particle colliders.

  
150 YAN
[2150 AD]
6304) Nucleic Acid changed by microscopic devices.
unknown  
200 YAN
[2200 AD]
792) Robots have replaced humans in most manual labor tasks (including driving,
cleaning, food planting, harvesting, preparing and serving).

  
200 YAN
[2200 AD]
795) 1000 human-filled ships orbit earth.
  
200 YAN
[2200 AD]
6305) Microscopic devices repair, regrow and reshape damaged cells.
  
270 YAN
[2270 AD]
4594) Humans live on Mars.
unknown  
350 YAN
[2350 AD]
4607) Humans live on Mercury.
unknown  
400 YAN
[2400 AD]
4611) Humans land on a moon of Jupiter.
unknown  
500 YAN
[2500 AD]
683) Removal of Venus atmosphere is started.
  
500 YAN
[2500 AD]
686) End of death by aging.
  
550 YAN
[2550 AD]
4615) Humans live on Venus.
unknown  
570 YAN
[2570 AD]
4616) Humans move an asteroid.
unknown  
650 YAN
[2650 AD]
4619) Humans create atoms from light particles (photon fusion).
unknown  
701 YAN
[2701 AD]
4560) Humans land on moon of Saturn.
unknown  
750 YAN
[2750 AD]
4622) Ship reaches other star (Alpha Centauri). First close up pictures of
planets of a different star.

unknown  
765 YAN
[2765 AD]
6209) Living objects on planets of another star identified (bacteria made of
DNA).

Alpha Centauri  
800 YAN
[2800 AD]
24) Humans consume an asteroid.
  
800 YAN
[2800 AD]
4627) Humans land on a moon of Uranus.
unknown  
800 YAN
[2800 AD]
4628) Humans change the motion of a moon.
unknown  
850 YAN
[2850 AD]
4580) Humans change the motion of a planet.
unknown  
900 YAN
[2900 AD]
29) Ship impacts the surface of Jupiter. First image of the surface of Jupiter.
unknown  
900 YAN
[2900 AD]
4630) Humans land on a moon of Neptune.
unknown  
1,150 YAN
[3150 AD]
4638) Ship reaches Barnard's star.
unknown  
1,200 YAN
[3200 AD]
4614) Ship from Centauri reaches Earth with objects.
Neptune  
1,200 YAN
[3200 AD]
4637) Humans reach a different star, Centauri.
unknown  
1,350 YAN
[3350 AD]
4640) Ship reaches Sirius.
unknown  
1,500 YAN
[3500 AD]
684) Atmosphere of Venus completely removed.
  
1,800 YAN
[3800 AD]
4655) Humans live on Jupiter.
Jupiter  
2,000 YAN
[4000 AD]
4644) Atmosphere of Jupiter removed.
Jupiter  
2,000 YAN
[4000 AD]
4646) Humans have ships at 10 star systems.
unknown  
2,500 YAN
[4500 AD]
4579) Venus atmosphere like Earth.
  
2,500 YAN
[4500 AD]
4662) Motion of all planets under human control.
unknown  
2,500 YAN
[4500 AD]
6171) Humans reach the center of the Earth.
  
3,000 YAN
[5000 AD]
6177) Venus is completely filled with living objects and functions as a ship.
unknown  
3,100 YAN
[5100 AD]
4671) The first image of advanced living objects that evolved around a
different star.

unknown  
3,500 YAN
[5500 AD]
6176) Motion of star controlled. Star of Earth moved in direction of Centauri.
Mars  
4,000 YAN
[6000 AD]
4675) Humans touch advanced living objects that evolved around a different
star.

unknown  
15,000 YAN
[17000 AD]
678) One trillion humans.
  
25,000 YAN
[27000 AD]
4677) Humans inhabit 100 stars and form a globular cluster of 10 stars.
unknown  
45,000 YAN
[47000 AD]
4679) Humans inhabit 1000 stars and form a globular cluster of 100 stars.
unknown  
65,000 YAN
[67000 AD]
6174) Earth is completely filled with living objects.
Earth  
70,000 YAN
[72000 AD]
4684) Humans inhabit 10,000 stars and form a globular cluster of 1,000 stars.
unknown  
90,000 YAN
[92000 AD]
6210) Human-made globular cluster of 10,000 stars leaves the plane of the Milky
Way Galaxy.

unknown  
100,000 YAN
4678) All planets of Star of Earth consumed.
unknown  
130,000 YAN
100) The star of Earth is consumed.
  
185,000 YAN
6178) All planets of Sirius consumed.
Sirius  
205,000 YAN
6317) Sirius consumed.
Sirius  
630,000 YAN
106) Ten to the power 100 humans.
  
20,000,000,000 YAN
4686) The Milky Way Galaxy is now a globular galaxy.
unknown  
30,000,000,000 YAN
4687) The Milky Way Globular Galaxy integrates with the Magellanic Cloud
Galaxies.

unknown  
40,000,000,000 YAN
4688) The Milky Way and Andromeda Globular Galaxies join.
unknown  
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