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The process of life evolving into new species.
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Evolution.
10 random takeaways.
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The Congo river split Bonobos and chimpanzees about 1.5 million years ago. Chimpanzees are stronger, more aggressive, and have lighter skin. Bonobos have darker skin from birth and are thinner and more bipedal.
2.
Quote:
- Charles Darwin.
- 1859.
Evolution is not about desire, nor is it a contest of strength, or intellect. It’s about reproductive success. The individuals, and species, that possess traits best suited for the current environment are more likely to survive, and to pass on those traits. Over millennia, these traits accumulate, leading to races, sub-species, and eventually separate species unable to interbreed.
3.
From History: 555 Million Years Ago (+/- 5 million)
Nerve nets and muscle cells
By 555 million years ago, animals start to emerge. The comb jellyfish is likely the first true animal. Originally, we thought simple sponges evolved furst, but genetic analyses changed that.
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Since neanderthals painted in caves in Spain 70,000 years ago, that hints that our common ancestor 440,000 years ago also possessed symbolic thought.
5.
Quote:
- Charles Darwin.
- 1859.
From History:
In On the Origin of Species, first published in 1859, Darwin gave only a short nod to human origins, but it was enough to point the future in a new direction. That small sentence rang the bell for what would later become paleoanthropology.
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From History: From 538.8 to 251.902 million years ago.
287 Million years: From burrowing to extinction.
The Paleozoic Era is marked by the rise of complex animal burrowing life about 539 million years ago. It also saw the rise of our ancestors, the synapsids, who came to dominate the era. Their reign, and the era itself, ended 252 million years ago with the end-Permian mass extinction, a volcanic cascade event that drove rapid global warming and widespread environmental collapse. In the Mesozoic Era that followed, mammals barely survived the age of dinosaurs.
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Red and green algae diverged about 1.5 billion years ago, shaping marine ecosystems. Green algae later gave rise to land plants around 475 million years ago, transforming Earth’s surface and atmosphere. Fun fact: blue-green algae aren’t algae at all. They’re photosynthetic bacteria that emerged much earlier, around 2.7 billion years ago.
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From History: ~3.2 Billion Years Ago (+/- 200 million)
The HK97-Fold (Steel Pouch)
By 3.2 billion years ago, Duplodnaviria viruses perfected the HK97-type capsid, a structural “shipping container” that protects DNA under immense pressure. This ancient blueprint proved so effective that it remains the shared machinery for both modern bacterial phages and human herpesviruses, bridging the gap between simple and complex life.
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Blood evolved as a vital fluid for transporting nutrients and oxygen, starting around 1.2 billion years ago. The real breakthrough came 500 million years ago with hemoglobin, enabling efficient oxygen transport. This evolution allowed life to grow more complex, leading to the diverse organisms we see today.
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From History: Lived from 169 to 164 million years ago.
Not a bird ancestor, but part of the theropod mix.
Proceratosaurus shows that the tyrannosaur story began small. Long before T. rex, early tyrannosauroids were modest predators experimenting with traits that would later define the giant tyrants. Its story reminds us that evolution often starts quietly, with little hunters whose descendants later reshape the world.
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