- Mother Nature (13.7 billion-7 million BC)
How the universe was formed, and the unfolding of life on earth before mankind- Crunch, Bang, Ouch![rtoc]
How an invisible speck of infinite energy exploded our universe into existence, with its galaxies of stars and constant laws of physics.[/rtoc] - First Twitches[rtoc]
How collisions, bombardments and volcanoes pummelled the young earth’s hot, lifeless crust, and how chemicals began to replicate into microscopic forms of life[/rtoc] - Tectonic Teamwork[rtoc]
How conditions for creating new, more complex creatures were improved by the joint forces of the earth’s planetary systems and the processes of early life.[/rtoc] - Fossil Fuss[rtoc]
How life exploded into a variety of new organisms, some of which developed hard shells, bones and teeth that fossilized into a timeless museum of life on earth.[/rtoc] - Davy Jones’s Locker[rtoc]
How prehistoric life evolved in the seas before living creatures colonized the land, and how some fish developed backbones – becoming humanity’s oldest ancestors.[/rtoc] - Friends of the Earth[rtoc]
How plants on land eventually evolved into tall trees, and how the ground was covered with a blanket of nutrient-rich soil nurtured by insects, worms and fungi.[/rtoc] - Great Egg Race[rtoc]
How the earth’s restless crusts collided into a single, giant super-continent, provoking new forms of life to evolve and triggering the first mass extinction of land creatures.[/rtoc] - Dino-Wars[rtoc]
How a race of terrible lizards came to dominate life on land, radiating from pole to pole until a freak extra-terrestrial impact wiped them all out.[/rtoc] - Flowers, Birds & Bees[rtoc]
How the earth’s first flowers blossomed alongside feathered flight, and how new species of social insects constructed nature’s first civilizations.[/rtoc] - Prime Time[rtoc]
How a minor family of noctural forest dwellers became the next masters of life on land, spilling out on to the earth’s drifting continents and morphing into a new cornucopia of species.[/rtoc]
- Crunch, Bang, Ouch![rtoc]
- Homo Sapiens (7 million-5000 BC)
How humans evolved as hunter-gatherers, living within the state of nature.- Ice Box
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