A condensed story of how biological evolution is a consequence of cosmological evolution. This has been created to engineer the young with an objective belief system that is empirically factually verifiable
3. Atoms tend to stick together to form the material that makes us
and everything else around us.
4. Originally, this universe started with what is called the Big Bang,
increasing energetically in size from a singular point outwards in all
directions. Hydrogen atoms were mostly created when this happened
Hydrogen is the simplest of the Atoms and the lightest of them all .
Stars are made out of hydrogen and the first stars were formed from the
hydrogen produced in the Big Bang which accumulated into large
concentrated densities. From the gas left over that originally formed in
the Big Bang new stars continue to form all the time
5. Our own Sun is a type of star.
¡Look at our Sun shine!
6. A solar flare is a sudden flash of increased Sun’s brightness, usually
observed near its surface. These can be powerful enough to cause
huge areas of electronic failure on planet Earth.
7. Our own Sun is a type of star.
Different types of atoms than the original atoms of hydrogen the star was
mainly composed of are created, transformed from the hydrogen during
the star’s life or in different types of stellar events. Our Sun is currently
burning, or fusing, hydrogen to helium. This is called Nucleosynthesis
9. This other type of star, larger than our own Sun is of a type that explodes
at the end ot its life and is called a Supernova. Elements heavier than iron
are made in this type of stellar event
13. IAfter different types of stellar explosions the atomic matter is expelled
into outer space and clumps around newly forming stars so older stars
add to new stars
14. This is a young star & its
protoplanetary disks, forming
from remains of older ones
which have reached the end
of their lives once they
have exploded, combining
with the relatively abundant
gas hydrogen, left over
from the beginning of the
universe
15. The matter from generations of different stars clumps together into very
large objects which form planets around stars like planet Earth
16. Once the matter made
out of all the types of
atoms mix and react
(mix at a molecular
level) with the water
on a planet like Earth
the possibility for life
to happen occurs
18. This is an
imagined
recreation of
what an
asteroid or
comet impact
with planet
Earth would
look like
from the
surface of
planet Earth
19. On the Early Planet Earth billions of
years ago all life was very small and
simple
20. We still have very
similar lifeforms
alive today. By
studying them using
technology .like this
microscope we can
figure out that some
of the original
lifeforms were our
ancestors
21. All plants and animals that exist today are genetically related in the tree
23. They are fossil ammonites. Fossils are any preserved remains,
impression, or trace of any once-living thing. These remains are found
preserved through mineral replacement in sedimentary rock after
hundreds of thousands to millions of years
Scientists believe that ammonites were marine free swimming animals
and that they looked as an octopus but carried a shell just as snails do
25. But they carried a shell like this snail. This is not a coincidence
in this case. Octopus and snails are closely related. Both
belong to a general type of animal call molluscs
26. Molluscs are a numerous and diverse in form group of animals
but we know that they all had the same common ancestor.
This type of extinct mollusc is called Orthoceras, a type of
Nautiloid
27. These are fossil Orthoceras that are still embedded in their
matrix, the original rock they were found in. They have an
age of approximately 490 million years
28. These are Orthoceras fossils that have been individually been
extracted from the rocks they were found in. This takes a lot
of work which makes them cost more
29. This a Nautilus, another type of Nautiloid but this species can
still be found alive swimming in the oceans to this day
30.
31. Not all fossils are related to the molluscs which are the ones most
commonly found. There are many types of fossilised animals and plants
¿What is this type of fossilised carnivore called?
32. Once we find the fossil remains of a life form we can reconstruct with
quite a degree of accuracy what it looked like
This is a tyrannosaurus Rex
41. ¿Do you know what this is a fossil of?
These fossils are the remains of animals that have lived in more recent
times that the ammonites or Orthoceras, from a few million yearsago to a
few thousand
42. This is a Woolly Mammoth
Mammoths lived from around 5 million years ago to about 4,500 years
44. These fossils are related to what we now think eventually branched of
and evolved into the Human species. This is a type of
Australopithecus.
45. From the fossil bones we can
work out how the flesh that
covered them looked like
and artisticallyrecreate them.
This creature, although it
looked like a chimpanzee,
walked just like a Human
on 2 legs
47. Chimps walk on all fours most of the time. This is called knuckle
walking
48. Do you know from what type of human this fossil skull is from? It is
even more recent that the australopithecus!
!
This skull was found in Gibraltar in 1848
49. It is from a neanderthal woman. Neanderthals were until very
recently thought to have gone extinct
50. Neanderthals were much stronger than us. They looked different to us.
They had big lips and noses. They also had no pointed chins
51. Nearderthals did not die out completely. They were like our cousins.
There is a little bit of neanderthals still alive in most people
52. Here we have
speeded up an
evolutionary
version, from
when our
ancestors had a
common
ancestor with
the
chimpanzees,
to the present
53. Today we have studied the tree of life on our planet Earth which has
inclusively been formed from other parts of the Universe. Seeing as this
Universe is so big and there is so much of the material for life to live of
across the Universe, can other trees of life exist elsewhere?
54. Scientist think that it is very possible that life forms have arisen
independently in other parts of the Universe
55. These forms of life could have taken different evolutionary pathways
than that on planet Earth
56. Considering that we humans are life forms and that we are
made of the material itself made in the Universe, we think that
intelligent life in the Universe is the Universe aware of itself