Thinking about the age of the Earth and the time that living creatures have lived on it, how can you visualize the time span, way beyond your own lifespan, to better understand the biological processes that have occurred during the Earth's time?
To imagine things that have happened over such a large timeline, I break it down and connect it to key items. Linking things that happen at or around the same time helps to visualize it somewhat. I use this method for everything that has happened beyond my own lifetime. Just like women fighting for their right to vote was a few years before, but in the same time frame, as the Civil War. Things like that help me visualize the formation of our country and can be used to visualize the formation of life (although the time frame of life is more then just slightly bigger then the countries time line).
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