Domain of Science | Every Animal In Your DNA @domainofscience | Uploaded 6 years ago | Updated June 27 2024
You are the living ancestor of an unbroken chain of lives stretching from you, through your mother and your grandmother all the way back through the complete history of life on planet Earth to the very first life forms that appeared around four billion years ago.

#naturalhistory #DomainOfScience

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More info and links:
Times humans nearly became extinct
https://io9.gizmodo.com/close-calls-three-times-when-the-human-race-barely-esc-1730998797
Bottlenecks of human population
https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/17/1/2/975516/Population-Bottlenecks-and-Pleistocene-Human
Animal Ancestors illustration
https://ntamura.deviantart.com/art/Evolution-project-178230251
Timeline of the evolutionary history of life on Earthh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_evolutionary_history_of_life#cite_note-NAT-20170301-15
Early sponge
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/03/oldest-known-sponge-pushes-back-date-key-split-animal-evolution
List of phylogeny of human ancestors
https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/27992/largest-direct-ancestor-of-humans
Acorn worm genes shared with humans
http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/33346/20151119/evolution-worms-70-percent-human-genes-trace-ancestry-acorn-worm.htm

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