01 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
Big History as a Fable Part II
Sex and death evolved – processes that vastly increased the rate of natural selection. Some organisms evolved hard parts, climbed onto, and survived on the land. The pace of production of more complex forms accelerated. Flight evolved. Enormous four-legged beasts thundered across the steaming jungles. Small beasts emerged, born live, instead of in hard-shelled containers filled with replicas of the early oceans. They survived through swiftness and cunning – and increasingly long periods i...Folksonomies: wonder big history
Folksonomies: wonder big history
Carl Sagan's account of the history of our Universe continued.