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- RELATIVE DATING
- ABSOLUTE DATING
LIFE ON EARTH
- PRECAMBRIAN ERA
- PALEOZOIC ERA RELATIVE DATING
- MESOZOIC ERA
- Dating method that is not precise
- CENOZOIC ERA
- It is a matter of whether something is younger
than another or older than something that
can be or has been dated, or being in between
PRECAMBRIAN ERA (4,600-590 MILLION YEARS AGO)
two dates.
- Single-called microbes develop 3.5billion
years ago.
ABSOLUTE DATING
MESOZOIC ERA (250-65 MILLION YEARS AGO) - All living beings absorb daily from the
environment and the atmosphere. It remains
- Albertosaurus hunts throughout Western in the living bodies until death.
Canada 70million years ago
POTASSIUM ARGON K-AR DATING
CHARLES DARWIN
ERA
- refused to accept that all species that
- Divided by time blocks.
emerged have been created independently.
3 GEOLOGIC ERAS
NATURAL SELECTION
- PALEOZOIC
- does not only produce changes within a
- MESOZOIC
species but also to the emergence of new
- CENOZOIC (Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene,
species.
Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Recent)
FOSSILS
TERTIARY PERIOD
QUARTERNARY PERIOD
OLIGOCENE EPOCH
HOMONIDS
- paved the way to the emergence of the
- has shared some characteristics with other monkeys and some of the early apes like the
animals in the past. Oligocene Catarrhines and the
Aegyptopithecus.
PROPLIOPITHECUS
TREE SHREW - considered as a generalized hominoid.
- referred to as an insectivore
MIOCENE
TARSIER - period of environmental conditions
- arboreal primate have developed tarsal bones
at the foot
DRYOPITHECUS
DRYOPITHECUS AFRICANUS
PLIOPITHECUS
PROCONSUL
- A massive ape probably descended from - First discovered in 1938 and was called
Dryopihecus Indicus. Paranthropus.
- meaning the eating of small, tough grass - It is also called as the “Nutcracker Man”
seeds, stems and rhizomes that require a lot because its face and cheek are so massive.
of grinding.
HOMONIDS HOMO-HABILIS
- close relatives of humans. - is believed to be the first of the "great Ape"
type creatures to have evolved into "Homo"
(Man).
AUSTRALOPITHECUS
AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFRICANUS