by AKIO TANAKA
How the ancient primate might have looked, in its natural habitat of trees (artistic reconstruction) IMAGE/Xijun Ni/Nature
5,000,000,000 years ago — amino acid, RNA, protein, DNA
500,000,000 years ago — vertebrae – chordate – pikaia
50,000,000 years ago — primate – archicebus
5,000,000 years ago — hominid – australopithecus
500,000 years ago — hominin – homo rhodesiensis
50,000 years ago — human migration out of Africa
5,000 years ago — civilizations (Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China)
500 years ago — enclosure and colonial movements, witch burnings
50 years ago — atom bomb (1945), GMO (1972)
5 years ago — derivatives, surveillance state
Akio Tanaka can be reached at akiot04@yahoo.com