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Last updated 9th September, 2007. The editor Tim Anderson

Evolution Timeline

• Scientific Dating Methods Radioactive decay, Carbon 12 decay and geological evidence
• Cosmic Background Radiation Remnants of the Big Bang discovered in 1965
• Evolutionary Time scales Long time scales involved in evolution
• Religious creationist views World created in 4004 B.C. at 9 A.M. October 23rd
• The Cambrian Explosion of Life Animals develop vision and hard shells
• The development of Vision Eyes and vision in the Cambrian era
• 370 Million Four legged vertebrates crawled up onto the land
• 250 Million Extinctions killed up to 96% of all life
• 200 Million One continent A super continent Gondwanaland
• 65 Million extinctions killed up to 50% of all life
• 50 Million Mammals and marsupials. Egg laying mammals marsupials and true mammals
• 33 Million Old world monkeys Developed Red Green and Blue vision
• 15 Million Orangutan Extinction by the logging of old forests in Borneo
• 7 Million Hominids emerge 93% similar in DNA to monkeys
• 5 Million Humans and Chimps Diverge
• 2.5 Million stone tools Crude stone tools were in common usage
• 1.7 Million Homo Habilis the handyman
• 75 thousand years ago Neanderthal
• 30 thousand technology Technology spears, fishing nets and sewn clothing
• An extinct human family member Hobbits Homo floresiensis or Hobbits
• Human and monkey species relatives Hominidae
• References Human origins Dawkins, Sykes, Andrew Parker

Big Bang theories

• A Big Bang Critic
• Cosmic Accidents
• Asteroid Threat
• Alien Genetic Reproduction
• Longevity and Intelligence
• Requirements for life
• Fluids for energy transfer
• Titus Bodes Law

Chaos

• Quantum Weirdness
• Self organised Complexity

• Introduction to Evolution Old school courses and the path to evolutionary knowledge
• DNA Genetic and learned influences on personality
• A new cosmology. A new theory

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