an emergent
website design
by
peter jay stein, md, ma
atmosphere
asthenosphere
lithosphere
regolith
biosphere
hydrosphere




This 54 page synopsis of the evolution
of the Earth, the origin and progression of life, and the
emergence of humans as descendants of the hominin lineage, divides the last 4.57 billion years into progressively overlapping, imagistic, time segments, to outline our place in biological existence.
magnetosphere
ionosphere
EUKARYA
TWENTY-FOUR
EMERGENT HAPLORHINES
ANIMALIA
BILATERIA
DEUTEROSTOME
CHORDATE
VERTEBRATE - FISH
VERTEBRATE - AMPHIBIAN
VERTEBRATE - REPTILE
reptilian fluid-containing eggs cut final tie with ocean
VERTEBRATE - MAMMAL
VERTEBRATE - DINOSAUR
birth of dinosaurs coincides with appearance of hardwood forests
VERTEBRATE - BIRD
PRIMATE
STREPSIRRHINI
HAPLORHINI
ANTHROPOID
PLATYRRHINI
CATARRHINI
HOMINOIDEA
HOMINIDEA
HOMININI
HOMO (GENUS)
HUMAN
*2 small bones of the reptilian lower jaw-bone, near the mandibular joint, evolve to form the malleus and incus, joining together with the reptilian stapes, to form the mammalian middle ear
200 mya
1.4 bya
