Deep Time: The Big Bang to Civilization
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Big Bang to Now
13.8 billion years on one timeline you can zoom, from the first light to the present. Every turning point cited.
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The Early Universe
The first billion years, from the fusion furnace of the Big Bang's opening minutes to the collision that reshaped the Milky Way, told through the instruments and satellites that found the evidence.
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The Formation of the Solar System
The 800 million years that turned a collapsing cloud of gas into the Sun, the planets, and a habitable Earth, from the oldest solids we can date to the first oceans.
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Early Life on Earth
How a single microbial ancestor became a planet run by oxygen, complex cells, and eventually animals, from LUCA to the doorstep of the Cambrian explosion.
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The Cambrian Explosion
How nearly every animal body plan alive today appeared within a geological blink, from the first mineral skeletons to the apex predators, calcite eyes, and first fish the fossil record preserves.
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Life Conquers the Land
The 160 million years between the Cambrian explosion and the dinosaurs, when plants, jaws, limbs, and the amniotic egg turned a planet of water into one of forests and dry land.
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Age of Dinosaurs
The age of the dinosaurs across the Mesozoic Era, from the Great Dying that cleared the way to the asteroid that ended their reign.
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The Age of Mammals
The 60 million years between the dinosaurs and the first humans, when rat-sized survivors grew into whales, horses, and elephants across a world remade by spreading grasslands.
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Human Evolution
Seven million years from the last ancestor we shared with other apes to the species writing this sentence.
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The Neolithic Revolution
How scattered bands of foragers became farmers, villagers, and finally citizens of the first cities.
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