Each major event will be depicted through vintage t-shirts I own
History of earth through t-shirts
Formation of Earth: ~4.5 Billion Years Ago
Start of Life: ~3.8 Billion Years Ago
Eukaryotic Cells Appear: ~2.0 to 1.8 Billion Years Ago
First Fungi Appear: ~1.0 Billion Years Ago
Oxygenation of Earth: ~2.4 to 2.1 Billion Years Ago
Each major event will be depicted through vintage t-shirts I own
History of earth through t-shirts
First Land Plants: ~ 470 Million Years Ago
Silurian Period: ~430 to 420 Million Years Ago
First Snakes: ~167 to 143 Million Years Ago
Paleogene Period: ~66 to 23 Million Years Ago
First Reptiles: ~320 to 310 Million Years Ago
Each major event will be depicted through vintage t-shirts I own
History of earth through t-shirts
Modern Humans: ~ 300 Thousand Years Ago
Eocene Epoch: ~56 to 34 Million Years Ago
Present Day: Now
Sources, Following Order of Timeline - Jacobsen, S.B. (2005). The Hf-W isotopic system and the origin of the Earth and Moon. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 33(1), 531-570. -Dodd, M. S., Papineau, D., Grenne, T., Slack, J. F., Rittner, M., Pirajno, F., O’Neil, J., & Little, C. T. S. (2017). Evidence for early life in Earth’s oldest hydrothermal vent precipitates. Nature, 543(7643), 60–64. -Lyons, T. W., Reinhard, C. T., & Planavsky, N. J. (2014). The rise of oxygen in Earth’s early ocean and atmosphere. Nature, 506(7488), 307–315 -Knoll, A. H., & Nowak, M. A. (2017). The timetable of evolution. Science Advances, 3(5), e1603076. -Loron, C. C., François, C., Rainbird, R. H., Turner, E. C., & Butterfield, N. J. (2019). Early fungi from the Proterozoic era in Arctic Canada. Nature, 570(7760), 232–235. -Wellman, C. H., Osterloff, P. L., & Mohiuddin, U. (2003). Fragments of the earliest land plants. Nature, 425(6955), 282–285. -Cocks, L. R. M., & Torsvik, T. H. (2006). European geography in a global context from the Vendian to the end of the Palaeozoic. Earth-Science Reviews, 79(3–4), 217–253. -Carroll, R. L. (1969). The earliest reptiles. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology, 49(313), 61–83. -Caldwell, M. W., Nydam, R. L., Palci, A., & Apesteguía, S. (2015). The oldest known snakes from the Middle Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous provide insights on snake evolution. Nature Communications, 6, 5996. -Gradstein, F. M., Ogg, J. G., Schmitz, M. D., & Ogg, G. M. (Eds.). (2020). Geologic time scale 2020. Elsevier. -Stringer, C. (2016). The origin and evolution of Homo sapiens. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371(1698), 20150237.
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Each major event will be depicted through vintage t-shirts I own
History of earth through t-shirts
Formation of Earth: ~4.5 Billion Years Ago
Start of Life: ~3.8 Billion Years Ago
Eukaryotic Cells Appear: ~2.0 to 1.8 Billion Years Ago
First Fungi Appear: ~1.0 Billion Years Ago
Oxygenation of Earth: ~2.4 to 2.1 Billion Years Ago
Each major event will be depicted through vintage t-shirts I own
History of earth through t-shirts
First Land Plants: ~ 470 Million Years Ago
Silurian Period: ~430 to 420 Million Years Ago
First Snakes: ~167 to 143 Million Years Ago
Paleogene Period: ~66 to 23 Million Years Ago
First Reptiles: ~320 to 310 Million Years Ago
Each major event will be depicted through vintage t-shirts I own
History of earth through t-shirts
Modern Humans: ~ 300 Thousand Years Ago
Eocene Epoch: ~56 to 34 Million Years Ago
Present Day: Now
Sources, Following Order of Timeline - Jacobsen, S.B. (2005). The Hf-W isotopic system and the origin of the Earth and Moon. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 33(1), 531-570. -Dodd, M. S., Papineau, D., Grenne, T., Slack, J. F., Rittner, M., Pirajno, F., O’Neil, J., & Little, C. T. S. (2017). Evidence for early life in Earth’s oldest hydrothermal vent precipitates. Nature, 543(7643), 60–64. -Lyons, T. W., Reinhard, C. T., & Planavsky, N. J. (2014). The rise of oxygen in Earth’s early ocean and atmosphere. Nature, 506(7488), 307–315 -Knoll, A. H., & Nowak, M. A. (2017). The timetable of evolution. Science Advances, 3(5), e1603076. -Loron, C. C., François, C., Rainbird, R. H., Turner, E. C., & Butterfield, N. J. (2019). Early fungi from the Proterozoic era in Arctic Canada. Nature, 570(7760), 232–235. -Wellman, C. H., Osterloff, P. L., & Mohiuddin, U. (2003). Fragments of the earliest land plants. Nature, 425(6955), 282–285. -Cocks, L. R. M., & Torsvik, T. H. (2006). European geography in a global context from the Vendian to the end of the Palaeozoic. Earth-Science Reviews, 79(3–4), 217–253. -Carroll, R. L. (1969). The earliest reptiles. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology, 49(313), 61–83. -Caldwell, M. W., Nydam, R. L., Palci, A., & Apesteguía, S. (2015). The oldest known snakes from the Middle Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous provide insights on snake evolution. Nature Communications, 6, 5996. -Gradstein, F. M., Ogg, J. G., Schmitz, M. D., & Ogg, G. M. (Eds.). (2020). Geologic time scale 2020. Elsevier. -Stringer, C. (2016). The origin and evolution of Homo sapiens. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371(1698), 20150237.