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Monodnaviria
Virus Evolution
~1.75 Billion years ago (+/- 200 million)
single-stranded DNA viruses
Science
Timeline
Ordovician–Silurian Extinction: Ice Strikes the Seas
Evolution
~444 Million Years Ago
Cause: Global Cooling and Falling Seas
Science
Timeline
Unknowable Dao
Metaphysics
We can only describe nature.
Philosophy
Timeline
Paleozoic Era: The Age of Synapsids
Evolution
From 538.8 to 251.902 million years ago.
287 Million years: From burrowing to extinction.
Science
Timeline
Proto-Sinaitic script
- Emerged about 1900 BCE
- Used from 1900 to 1500 BCE
Writing History
From about 1900 to 1500 BCE
155 Generations Ago
History
Timeline
Confucius
- The "Great Sage" or the "First Teacher."
Confucianism
born 551 BCE
Lived from 551 to 479 BCE, aged 72
History
Timeline
Neornithes (Crown Birds) emerge
Bird Evolution
~90 Million years ago (+/- 10 million).
Science
Timeline
Asaphid trilobite
Arthropod Evolution
Lived from 470 to 445 million years ago.
Science
Timeline