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If the evolution of animals was one day... (600 million years)
* From 1am to 4am, most of the modern types of animals have evolved (Cambrian explosion)
* Animals get on land a bit at 3am. Early risers! It takes them until 7am to actually breath air.
* Around noon, first octopuses show up.
* Dinosaurs arrive at 3pm, and stick around until quarter to ten.
* Humans and chimpanzees split off about fifteen minutes ago, modern humans and Neanderthals lived in the last minute, and the pyramids were built around 23:59:59.2.

In that world, if that was a Sunday:
* Saturday would have started with the introduction of sexual reproduction
* Friday would have started by introducing the nucleus to the cell
* Thursday recovering from Wednesday's catastrophe
* Wednesday photosynthesis started, and lead to a lot of oxygen which killed a lot of beings just before midnight
* Tuesday bacteria show up
* Monday first forms of life show up
* Sunday morning, planet Earth forms, pretty much at the same time as the Sun.
* Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is about a week older
* The Universe is about another week older - about 22 days.

There are several things that surprised me here.
* That dinosaurs were around for such an incredibly long time. Dinosaurs were around for seven hours, and humans for a minute.
* That life started so quickly after Earth was formed, but then took so long to get to animals.
* That the Earth and the Sun started basically at the same time.

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Addendum April 27: Álvaro Ortiz, a graphic designer from Madrid, [https://populate.tools/blog/if-life-was-one-day turned this text into an infographic].

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