The Forgotten Origins series traces the history of life on Earth over the last 4.5 billion years, starting with the formation of the planet from cosmic debris. This series of short articles addresses key inflection points in Earth’s long history and examines the symbiotic relationship between life and the planet.
- Water From Cosmic Debris Supports Life
- Water Created by the Sun
- Building Blocks of Life
- Abiogenesis Jumpstarts Evolution
- The Rise and Fall of a Chemosynthetic Empire
- A Blue-Green Revolution
- Life Takes Another Leap Forward
- Banded Iron Formations
- Missing Oxygen
- Eukaryotes and Oxygen
- The Cryogenian Big Freeze
- Our Common Ancestors
- The Ediacaran World
- Late Ediacaran Mass Extinction
- Hyper Evolution
- The Ingredients for Life
- The Rise and Fall of Ordovician Life
- The Big Ordovician Freeze
- Ordovician-Silurian Mass Extinction
- Silurian Magic
- Devonian World
- The Rise of Devonian Trees
- Devonian Life Sinks into Mass Extinction
- End of the Devonian
- Carboniferous Period
- Permian Water World
- Life Crashes as the Permian Ends
- A New Start in the Triassic
- Jurassic Heat
