Brief notes on some of the events mentioned.
(In roughly date order.)
Click on the chosen heading.
‘The nature of scientific truth’
How do we know how old our planet is?
The geology of the young Earth
Why
can’t we do our own chemistry?
Geological and biological timescales
The appearance of Complex Creatures
The vagaries of the fossil record
When did plate tectonics start?
The terrible Varangerian ice age
The world 500 My ago (Cambrian Period)
The world 460 My ago (Ordovician Period)
The world 425 My ago (Silurian Period)
The Carboniferous coal forests
The world 350 My ago (Carboniferous Period)
The world 240 My ago (Pangaea time)
The world 200 My ago (Triassic Extinction time)
When the oxygen level skyrocketed
The world 150 My ago (Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary)
How the flying reptiles got so big
The world 150 My ago (mid Cretaceous)
What killed off the dinosaurs?
The world
65 My ago (K-T boundary, end of dinos and flying reptiles)
What is the difference between us and animals?
The arrival of the mighty hunter
(& hominids reach
Fire and cooking. So early?
Some scientists think so.
The
spread of modern languages
The spear throwers (also H. antecessor, the butchers of Boxgrove
& huts)
A bit about the Neanderthals
Doggerland,
now the bed of the
The first modern civilisations
The
spread of modern languages
The great inventions of mankind
The
origins of modern medicine
The
railways, one of the Great Inventions of Mankind?