Oldest rocks found?
3.9 BYO have no fossils
Fossil record shows bacteria when?
3.0-3.5 BYO
Primitive Oceans
Life evolved from here
Cellular life originated
first 1 billion years of earth history
Great moments in evolution
Seven pillars of life (PICERAS)
Program Improvisation Compartmentalization Energy Regeneration Adaptability Seclusion
Evidence for evolution
Palaeontology and fossil record
Comparative anatomy of cells and organisms
Embryology
Comparative biochemistry and molecular biology
Structure of DNA, gene sequences
Taxonomy
description and naming of organisms
Classification
recognising heirarchial groups of related organisms
Phylogeny
the evolutionary relationships of organisms