Use analogy for geological time below to answer questions

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Another analogy for geological time: to answer questions below

The first bird – 150 MY

The first flying insect. – 400 MY

The first eukaryotic life – 2.7 billion years old

The first life – 3.8 billion years old

First flowering plants.​ – 130 MY

First land animals – 240 MY

First dinosaur​ – 220 MY

First human. – 7 milion years ( Human ancestors )

First Jellyfish. ​- 600 million years old

References:

Gould, S. J. (1987). Time’s arrow, time’s cycle: Myth and metaphor in the discovery of geological time (Vol. 2). Harvard University Press.

Holmes, A. (1959). A revised geological time-scale. Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society, 17(3), 183-216.

 

Can you rearrange the same list in chronological order? in that way, it would be easier to compare and understand. 

Can you please share with us, how are we able to understand all the ‘firsts’ on this planet? what evidence we have for these events?

Also how do we know about the origin of life on earth? How we predicted earth is 4.8 billion years old?