Template:Life timeline

Life timeline

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photosynthesis

Eukaryotes

Multicellular
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Arthropods       Molluscs

Plants

Dinosaurs

Mammals

Flowers

Birds

Primates

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Earth (−4540)

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Earliest water

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Earliest life

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Earliest oxygen

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Atmospheric oxygen

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Oxygen crisis

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Sexual reproduction

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Earliest plants

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Ediacara biota

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Cambrian explosion

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Tetrapoda

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Earliest apes

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Huronian

Cryogenian

Andean

Karoo

Quaternary

Ice_Ages

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Axis scale: million years

Also see: Human timeline and Nature timeline

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Usage

This clickable timeline template, wikilinked to over 30 Wikipedia articles, translated into over 15 languages, edited by over 80 editors, was originally derived from "Template:Life timeline (en)" for inclusion in the article "Timeline of the evolutionary history of life". It is not an article!

To use it in an article, use the code {{Life timeline}}
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See also

• Art of the Nature Timelines on Wikipedia
• Cosmic Calendar
• Geological history
• Graphical timeline of the universe
• {{Include timeline}}
• {{Human timeline}}
• {{Nature timeline}}
• Template: Life timeline images:
  • Archives: (Perm20170822); (Wayback20170822).
  • Screen Captures: (20170116); (20170822).
• Template: Life timeline transclusions
• Template:Life timeline (en)
• Timeline of the formation of the Universe
• Template: Hominin (en); (en-vertical);
• Template: Hominin (simple); (simple-vertical);
• Template: Life on Earth (en); (en-vertical)
• Template: Life on Earth (simple); (simple-vertical)
• Template: Life on Earth transclusions
• Template: Location of Earth (en)
• Template: Location of Earth (simple)
• Template: Location of Earth transclusions