A Brief History of Life

For most of us, the pyramids symbolize the past. Finally, they are more than 4,500 years. But for the geologists and palaeontologists, they may very well have been designed to be yesterday. This is because these biographers importance of treatment in increments of millions and even billions of years in their struggle for the reconstruction of our planet's life history, which is so great that the 4500 years old, are increasingly focused on one million times more To the Earth in its infancy 4.5 billion years. From a different angle, if we should measure our planet as a unique age than 24 hours per day, the first human civilizations seems to be less than one second before midnight.

The geological time scale, by the scientists in the mid-19th Century and has been on an international level, which breaks in the eternity of the world's history in units easier to administer than years. The scope of functions such as a calendar-solid, divided into the history of life in the times, times, periods and on the basis of evidence fossils. In this role, the study of the history of life on Earth as we know it today, once the youngest of the bacteria for the first modern man. To implement the interactive, click on the image left.