A Picture of Nature & Civilization

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The Blue Marble

The Biosphere

The Eco-Regions

Terrain on Black Ocean

Olduvai Gorge

AustralopithecusSouthern Ape

Range of Australopithecus 5.3-1.6 mya

Range of Homo Erectus 1.6 mya

Homo Erectus

Neanderthal

Range of Homo Neanderthalis 350-30 kya

Ice Sheet c 200 kya

Archaic Humans

Modern Humans

Ice Sheet c 200 kya

Range of Archaic Humans

Omo River Valley

Earliest Homo Sapiens c 200-180 kya

“Adam” & theSans People

Earliest Common Ancestors of all Modern Humans 60 kya

Migrations c 50 kya

Migrationsc 40 kya

Migrationsc 30 kya

Last of Homo Neanderthalis c 30 kya

Migrationsc 20 kya

Migrationsc 10 kya

Earliest Civilizations c 4500 yaSecondary Civilizations c 3000 ya

Old Silk Road

Trade Routes/Corridors c 2500 ya

North AmericanTrade Routes

South AmericanTrade Routes

Transcontinental Trade Routes c 600 yaEarliest Civilization(s)

The Night

Human Population 2000

Wilderness Areas 2000

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Amazon Rain Forest

Central African Rain Forest

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The Arctic Circle

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The Blue Marble