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<noinclude>{{Short description|Life events since the formation of the Earth 4.54 billion years ago}}</noinclude>

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 | title=[[Timeline of the evolutionary history of life|Life timeline]]

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 | note1-at=-4540 <!--- Estimated age of [[Earth]] is 4540 mya - also, see [[Age of Earth]] --->
 | note1=[[Age of Earth|Earth formed]]

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 | note2=[[Origin of water on Earth|Earliest water]]
 | note2-nudge-down=0.2

 | note3-at=-4350 <!--"shortly after 4.5 bya, within the Hadean", Betts 2018--> 
 | note3=[[Last universal common ancestor|LUCA]]

 | note4-at=-4000  <!-- est. 3.8-4.3 Gya - Earliest evidence of Life on Earth is "possibly as early as 4280 mya" - see "[[Earliest known life forms]]" - and => https://www.nature.com/articles/nature21377 --->
 | note4=[[Earliest known life forms|Earliest fossils]]

 | note5-at=-3900
 | note5=[[Late Heavy Bombardment|LHB meteorites]]

 | note6-at=-3500
 | note6=[[Geological history of oxygen|Earliest oxygen]]

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 | note7=[[Pongola glaciation]]*

 | note8-at=-2300
 | note8=[[Great Oxidation Event|Atmospheric oxygen]]
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 | note9-at=-2250
 | note9=[[Huronian glaciation]]*
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 | note10-at=-2000<!--- <ref name="NAT-2008">{{cite journal |last=Otto |first=Sarah P. |title=Sexual Reproduction and the Evolution of Sex |url=https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/sexual-reproduction-and-the-evolution-of-sex-824/ |date=2008 |journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]] |accessdate=1 October 2021 }}</ref><ref name="SCI-20090605">{{cite news |last=Zimmer |first=Carl |authorlink=Carl Zimmer |title=On The Origin Of Sexual Reproduction |url=https://www.science.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/science.324_1254 |date=5 June 2009 |journal=[[Science (journal)|Science]] |volume=324 |page=1254 |accessdate=1 October 2021 }}</ref> --->
 | note10=[[Evolution of sexual reproduction#Origin of sexual reproduction|<!---Earliest--->Sexual reproduction]]

 | note11-at=-1600 <!--- -2100--->
 | note11=[[Francevillian biota|Earliest multicellular life]]

 | note12-at=-1500
 | note12=[[Evolution of fungi|Earliest fungi]]

 | note13-at=-850
 | note13=[[Evolutionary history of plants|Earliest plants]]
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 | note14-at=-750
 | note14=[[Caveasphaera|Earliest animals]]
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 | note15-at=-680
 | note15=[[Cryogenian|Cryogenian ice age]]*
 | note15-nudge-down=0.2

 | note16-at=-635
 | note16=[[Ediacaran biota|Ediacaran biota]]
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 | note17-at=-541
 | note17=[[Cambrian explosion]]
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 | note18-at=-450
 | note18=[[Andean-Saharan glaciation|Andean glaciation]]*
 | note18-nudge-up=0.1

 | note19-at=-370
 | note19=[[Tetrapod|Earliest tetrapods]]
 | note19-nudge-up=0.1

 | note20-at=-300
 | note20=[[Karoo Ice Age|Karoo ice age]]*
 | note20-nudge-up=0.2

 | note21-at=-25
 | note21=[[Ape|Earliest apes]] / [[Human|humans]]
 | note21-nudge-down=0.3

 | note22-at=-1.6
 | note22=[[Quaternary glaciation|Quaternary ice age]]*
 | note22-nudge-up=0.4

 | caption=<div style="float:left;font-size:85%;">([[myr|million years ago]])</div><div style="float:right;font-size:95%;">*''[[Timeline of glaciation|Ice Ages]]''</div>
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