Cosmic Calendar: First life emerges

ProkaryotesOn Carl Sagan’s Cosmic Calendar (illustrated as a comic strip here), which maps the entire history of our cosmos onto a single year, September is particularly interesting.

Today, on the 21st (3.8 billion years ago), prokaryotes, earth’s first forms of life, begin to wriggle and squirm.

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