REFLECTION PAPER

(MODULE 3: HISTORY OF LIFE ON EARTH)

History has always been a part of our society. It is our way of embracing
traditions and cultures. It also teaches the story behind what were our
environment be like before up to this point. In our Biology class, the history we are
referring to is the roots of Earth’s existence and the primordial organisms that
evolved up to contemporary times.
History of life on earth is a blast if you see it in smaller scale. Starting from
the molding of Earth into its habitable structure, it is oddly amazing that those
primordial organisms have progress towards variety of species. But the span of the
events was quite tedious. Scientists have created an uncomplicated timeline of the
different eons, eras, periods, and epochs in a chronological manner. They called
this the Geologic Time Scale (GTS). The GTS helped me vision the big picture of
major events in the span of the Earth’s age. It is astonishing that geologists have
unveiled such discoveries by means of studying fossils. It took me twelfth grade to
know that fossils are not just bones of prehistoric organism. There are a variety of
fossils, and an example of this is the trace fossil which I found hilarious that even
feces of organisms were also used to determine a bit of information way back in
time. Another remarkable information that I have learned is the age of Earth. Earth
is theoretically said to be four and a half billion years old. And each era was
spanning like hundreds of million years.
This topic made me realize that there are a ton of information that I did not
know. Diving back to the history of life on Earth is a crazy ride. Things like
evolution, extinction and the primordial organism that once roam the surface of
our planet is an incredible bit of knowledge to store.
Looking back to the events that occurred in Earth made us have insights as to
what was the earth like millions of years ago. From the primordial organisms that
shaped the earth up to the variety of species today. It is crazy to think that the
chances of life existing in our planet is a billionth percent, and just by looking back
we can value the life we are cherishing today.