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Category: Our Brief Time in the Sun

The Earth Year Zero

27/11/201428/01/2017 • Dan Hughes • Add your comment

264 This page in the Diary of the Universe is still to be written and much of what it will say has already been written. Essentially it marks the beginning of the Current Era, (CE) that is, what used to be called AD. It is believed by many millions of people to be the date…

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The Current Era

25/11/201422/12/2016 • Dan Hughes • Add your comment

This post will be the final of 41 essays that cover the period from 2000 years ago to the modern age. What used to be known as 2000 AD is now 2000 CE.

Modern Humans Arrive

25/11/201422/12/2016 • Dan Hughes • Add your comment

60,000 years ago, modern humans have spread out from Africa and evolve into all the people on earth today. Separate populations evolve into the nationalities.

The First Towns and Cities

25/11/201422/12/2016 • Dan Hughes • Add your comment

3500 BCE (before theĀ  Current Era) 5500 years ago, the first states arise, > 50,000 people includes small cities. China invents writing independently. Changes in human appearance in different regions produce many “races”.

Before We Grew Food

25/11/201422/12/2016 • Dan Hughes • Add your comment

12,000 years ago, the most recent Ice Age ends as reduced pigment skin (white humans) evolves in northern Europe to compensate for vitamin D deficiency.

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