The Whole History of the Earth and Life

This is a documentary which portrays the birth of the solar system, the birth of the Earth, and the emergence and evolution of life on Earth depicted through latest research activities.

1. The Origin of the Earth.

4.567 billion years ago : The formation of the Solar System.

4.56 billion years:ago : The formation of the Earth.

4.55 billion years ago : Giant impact.


2. Initiation of Plate Tectonics.

4.37-4.20 billion years ago : The formation of the atmosphere and ocean.

4.37-4.20 billion years ago : The initiation plate tectonics.


3. Birth of Proto-life.

4.10(4.20?) billion years ago : The birth of first proto-life.


4. The Initial Stage of Life.

4.37-4.20 billion years ago : The loss of the primordial continent and the generation of a strong geomagnetic field.

4.20 billion years ago : The emergence of sun-powered life.

4.10 billion tears ago : Mass extinction.


5. Second Stage of Evolution of Life.

2.90 billion years ago : The emergence of photosynthetic life.

2.70 billion years ago : Mantle overturn.


6. Third Stage of the Evolution of Life.

2.30 billion years ago : Mass extinction by snowball Earth.

2.10 billion years ago : From prokaryotes to eukaryotes.


7: The Dawn of the Cambrian Explosion.

1.90-0.80 billion years ago : The Formation of a Supercontinent.

700-600 million years ago : The Sturtian Glaciation

700-600 million years ago : The Leaking Earth.


8: The Cambrian Explosion.

640 million years ago : The Origin of Multicellular Life. The Marinoan Glaciation.

580 million years ago : Appearance of Ediacaran Fauna. The Gaskiers Glaciation.

550 million years ago : Evolution Responds to Environmental Changes

540 million years ago : The First Cambrian Organisms


9: The Paleozoic Era.

600 million years ago : Expanding Habitats.

540 million years ago : The Co-evolution of Planets and Insects 

550-540 million years ago : The Evolution of Vertebrates

260-250 million years ago : The Largest Mass extinction of the Phanerozoic Eon. Collision with a Dark nebula


10: From the Mesozoic to the birth of human beings.

Dispersion and amalgamation of continents, and the evolution of life.

The birth of primates.


11: The Humanozoic eon : the appearance of human beings and civilization.

Evolution into primates.

The birth of human beings, the fourth animal category : the Humanozoic eon.

10000 years ago : The Agricultural Revolution.

5000 years ago : The Urban Revolution.

2400 years ago : The Religious Revolution.

300 years ago : The Industrial Revolution.

The Information Revolution.


12: Future of Earth.

Challenges for Human society.

Future of Human society.


200 million years later : Formation of the supercontinent.

400 million years later : Extinction of the C4 plants.

1 billion years later : Cessation of plate tectonics.

1.5 billion years later : Disappearance of the ocean.

4.5 billion years later : Collision between the Milky Way Galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy.

8 billion years later : Annihilation of the Earth.