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  2. Timeline of human evolution - Wikipedia

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    Amniotes (fully terrestrial tetrapods whose eggs are "equipped with an amnion") 340 Synapsida: Proto-Mammals 308 Therapsid: Limbs beneath the body and other mammalian traits 280 Class: Mammalia: Mammals: 220 Subclass: Theria: Mammals that give birth to live young (i.e. non-egg-laying) 160 Infraclass: Eutheria: Placental mammals (i.e. non ...

  3. Timeline of the evolutionary history of life - Wikipedia

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    At long irregular intervals, Earth's biosphere suffers a catastrophic die-off, a mass extinction, [9] often comprising an accumulation of smaller extinction events over a relatively brief period. [10] The first known mass extinction was the Great Oxidation Event 2.4 billion years ago, which killed most of the planet's obligate anaerobes.

  4. Human evolution - Wikipedia

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    Stone tools are first attested around 2.6 million years ago, when hominins in Eastern Africa used so-called core tools, choppers made out of round cores that had been split by simple strikes. [290] This marks the beginning of the Paleolithic, or Old Stone Age; its end is taken to be the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago.

  5. Scientists may have finally cracked puzzle of what came first ...

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    Genetic tools needed to create eggs existed long before nature invented chicken

  6. History of life - Wikipedia

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    The history of life on Earth traces the processes by which living and extinct organisms evolved, from the earliest emergence of life to the present day. Earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago (abbreviated as Ga, for gigaannum) and evidence suggests that life emerged prior to 3.7 Ga. [1] [2] [3] The similarities among all known present-day species indicate that they have diverged through the ...

  7. Evolution of mammals - Wikipedia

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    The first fully terrestrial vertebrates were reptilian amniotes — their eggs had internal membranes that allowed the developing embryo to breathe but kept water in. This allowed amniotes to lay eggs on dry land, while amphibians generally need to lay their eggs in water (a few amphibians, such as the common Suriname toad, have evolved other ways of getting around this limitation).

  8. Cosmic egg - Wikipedia

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    In the beginning, Amma dogon, alone, was in the shape of an egg: the four collar bones were fused, dividing the egg into air, earth, fire, and water, establishing also the four cardinal directions. Within this cosmic egg was the material and the structure of the universe, and the 266 signs that embraced the essence of all things.

  9. Beginning of human personhood - Wikipedia

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    Fertilization is the fusing of the gametes; a sperm cell and an ovum (egg cell) fuse to form a single-cell zygote.This is the beginning of the diploid phase of the human life cycle after two genetically unique haploid cells created via meiosis and chromosomal translocation combine their DNA and begin to develop into a multi-cellular organism.