The following evolution timeline shows some of the main intermediates, e.g. quarks, leptons, bosons, atoms, molecules, biomolecules, bacteria molecules,
fish, reptiles, etc., involved in the synthesis or formation of modern humans (human molecules) over the last 13.7 billion years of time of the known dynamics
of the universe (the symbol E is short for the power of ten, e.g. E2 = 10²):

Picture:

Name:

Before Bang?

Big Bang

Quarks

Leptons

Bosons

Proton

Neutron

Hydrogen (H-1, H-2, H-3)

Helium (He-3, He-4)

Lithium (Li-6, Li-7)

Beryllium, Boron

Carbon to Iron (stellar nucleosynthesis)

Cobalt to Uranium (explosive nucleosynthesis)

Hydrogen molecules

Supercluster map (region of ~50 superclusters)

Virgo Supercluster (association of ~100 groups/clusters)

Local Group (a group of ~50 galaxies)

Milky Way

Sun (sun molecule)

Earth (earth molecule)

Water

Methane

Ammonia

Methanol

Urea

NADH

Coenzyme A

Amino acid

Phospholipid

RNA

DNA

Myoglobin

Virus (avian flu)

Proto-bacteria A

Proto-bacteria B

Proto-bacteria C

Bacteria (cluster of E. coli)

Coccoid cyanobacteria (fossil, Australia)

Coccoid cyanobacteria (fossil, Canada)

Choanoflagellate

Aquatic flatworm

Fish

Walking fish

Amphibian (first land dwellers)

Reptile

Pangaea

Triconodont

Shrew

Lemur

Old World Monkey

Chimpanzee

Kenyanthropus platyops

Australopithecus afarensis

Homo habilis

Homo erectus

Early human (human molecule)

Y-chromosome man (DNA tracing, Africa)

Mediterranean

Indian

Asian

Australian

European (George V)

Siberian

Japenese

Scandinavian (Magnus Samuelsson)

Alaskan (Eskimo)

North American

South American

Irish

American (Thomas Jefferson)

English (Charles Darwin)

Man hunting (faces of tomorrow)

Evolved human

Formula:

H

He

Li

Be (4p) - B (5p)

C (6p) - Fe (26p)

Co (27p) - U (92p)

2H2

HE57HeE56OE54CE53NeE53 NE53FeE52SiE53MgE52SE52

OE50FeE49SiE49MgE49SE48AlE48NiE48CaE48CrE47NaE46KE46HE46TiE46FE45CE45PE45MnE44SrE44BaE44ClE44 VE44LiE44ZrE43RbE43ZnE44CuE43NE43BE43CeE43CoE43ScE43NdE43GaE43BeE43LaE42NbE42PbE42PrE42 SmE42ThE42GdE42DyE42YE42GeE42ArE42ErE41CsE41UrE41HfE41YbE41SnE41EuE41TaE41AsE41MoE41HoE41 WE41TbE41BrE41TlE40LuE40TmE40HeE40SbE40IE40CdE40InE40AgE40SeE40HgE39BiE39TeE39RuE38PdE38 AuE38PtE38NeE38ReE38RhE37OsE37KrE36IrE35XeE35RaE35PaE32AcE30AtE30PoE30RnE28TcE23PmE23FrE23

H2O

CH4

NH3

CH4O

CH4N2O

C21H27N7O14P2

C21H36N7O16P3S

H2NCHRCOOH

[C10H16O13N5P2]N |—————————| 1-nm

C560H868O168N140P70S60

|—————————| 30-nm

CE3HE3OE4NE4PE2SE2Ca50K50

CE5HE5OE4NE4PE2SE2CaE2 KE2ClE2NaE2

CE7HE7OE6NE6PE4SE4CaE4 KE3ClE3NaE3MgE2FeE2

CE10HE10OE10NE9PE8SE8CaE8KE6 ClE6NaE6MgE6FeE5SiE4MnE2CoE2 |——————————| 6-μm

|——————————| 50-μm

|——————————| 10-mm

CE22HE22OE22NE21PE20SE19CaE20 KE18ClE18NaE18MgE18FeE17FE17 ZnE16SiE16CuE15IE14MnE14 SeE14MoE13CoE13VE12

CE25HE25OE25NE25PE23SE22CaE21 KE21ClE21NaE21MgE21FeE20FE20 ZnE19SiE19CuE19BE18IE17MnE17 SeE18CrE18MoE16CoE16VE16

CE26HE26OE26NE25PE24SE23CaE23 KE22ClE22NaE22MgE22FeE21FE21 ZnE20SiE20CuE19BE19IE18MnE18 SeE18CrE18MoE17CoE17VE16

CE27HE27OE27NE26PE25SE24CaE25 KE24ClE24NaE24MgE24FeE23FE23 ZnE22SiE22CuE21BE21IE20SnE20MnE20 SeE20CrE20NiE20MoE19CoE19VE18

Date:

13.7 billion years ago

10E-32 seconds after bang

10E-32 seconds after bang

10E-32 seconds after bang

100 seconds after bang

100 seconds after bang

Minutes after bang

13.5 billion years ago

13.2 billion years ago

4.6 billion years ago

4.5 billion years ago

4.4 billion years ago

4.2 billion years ago

3.9 billion years ago

3.5 billion years ago

2.2 billion years ago

900 million years ago

550 million years ago

500 million years ago

400 million years ago

365 million years ago

350 million years ago

250 million years ago

220 million years ago

100 million years ago

45 million years ago

25 million years ago

5.5 million years ago

3.7 million years ago

3.2 million years ago

2.4 million years ago

1.8 million years ago

150,000 years ago

59,000 years ago (last common ancestor)

55,000 years ago

55,000 years ago

50,000 years ago

40,000 years ago

35,000 years ago

34,000 years ago

32,000 years ago

12,000 years ago

15,000 years ago

12,000 years ago

11,000 years ago

9,000 years ago

330 years ago

1859

Present day

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The above table was compiled using a aggregate of sources. [1] English naturalist Charles Darwin, of course, was the first to speculate, in a 1871 letter to English botanist Joseph Hooker, on the possible origins of humans in the big picture scheme of things: "[The original spark of life may have begun in] a warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, lights, heat, electricity, etc. present, so that a protein compound was chemically formed ready to undergo still more complex changes." ▬d▬▬▬▬ Quote: “a 4.4 billion-year-old zircon grain, from a rock in Australia, was found to contain oxygen isotope ratios indicative of water on Earth’s surface. Since life requires water, 4.4 billion years represents a possible oldest date for life on Earth, but is unconfirmed by fossil evidence.” [4] Quote: “One of the great transitions in the history of life: the invasion of land by fish … for billions of years, all life lived only in water … then, as of about 365 million years ago, creatures also inhabited land.” [5] American biologist Lynn Marguis, noted for her endosymbiotic hypothesis, gives the best description of what bacterial sex and reproduction would have been like about 3.85 billion years ago. [3] American geneticist Spencer Wells gives the best overview of "Mitochondrial Eve", of the 1987 mtDNA genetic tracing work of Rebecca Cann, quote: "all mitochondrial DNAs stem from one woman who is postulated to have lived about 200,000 years ago, probably in Africa", and "Y-chromosome Adam", as a man, who lived in Africa 59,000 years ago, which every person alive today is descendant from. [2] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

Quote: “Humans first inhabited Australia about 50,000 years ago, while the Americas were colonized about 15,000 to 20,000 years ago.” [6]

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References

1. (a) Thims, Libb. (2007). Human Chemistry (Volume One) (preview), (ch. 5: "Molecular Evolution", pgs. 121-146). Morrisville, NC: LuLu.	(g) Timeline of human evolution – Wikipedia. (h) Nucleosynthesis – Wikipedia.
(b) Thims, Libb. (2008). The Human Molecule (preview) (docstoc). Morrisville, NC: LuLu.	(i) Big Bang nucleosynthesis (elements H through Be) – Wikipedia.
(c) Clavin, William H. (2002). A Brain for all Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change. University of Chicago Press.	(j) Stellar nucleosynthesis (elements B through Fe) – Wikipedia. (k) Explosive nucleosynthesis (elements Co through U) – Wikipedia.
(d) Rees, Martin. (2005). Universe: the Definitive Visual Guide (Beginning of the universe timeline, pgs. 46-49). Dorling Kindersley.	(l) Haywood, John. (2001). Atlas of World History (section: Peopling the Earth: 100,000 - 10,000 Years Ago, pg. 1.02). Barnes & Noble.
(e) Kauffman, Stuart A. (1995). At Home in the Universe: the Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity (Cyanobacteria fossil pictures, pgs. 11-12). Oxford University Press.
(f) Savage, Donald, Wolpert, Stuart, Clark, Cindy, Dybas, Cherly. (2009). “Life on Earth Began at Least 3.85 Billion Years Ago, 400 Million Years Earlier than previously Thought, Scientists Say.” NASA, Jun 16.

2. Wells, Spencer. (2002). The Journey of Man: a Genetic Odyssey (pgs. 30, 54). Princeton University Press.
3. (a) Margulis, Lynn and Sagan, Dorion. (1995). What is Life? University of California Press.
Margulis, Lynn and Sagan, Dorion. (1997). What is Sex? Simon & Schuster.
4. source: The First Spark of Life, PDF display, The Story of Time and Life, City College of San Francisco, 2009).
5. Shubin, Neil. (2008). Your Inner Fish: A Journey to the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (pgs. 5-6). Pantheon.
6. Lavoie, Amy. (2009). “Human Colonization of Australia and the Americas Examined”, Harvard University Gazette Online, April 23.
7. (a) Bailey, James E. and Ollis, David F. (1986). Biochemical Engineering Fundamentals (pg. 4). McGraw-Hill.
(b) Loesy, Ariel G and Siekevitz, Philip. (1969). Cell Structure and Function (pg. 35). Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.

Other timelines
The following are classical and or humors depictions of the evolution of the human from apes and before:

Date	Picture	Reference
c.1863		Supposedly from Thomas Huxley’s 1863 Man’s Place in Nature (link).
c.1950		Display: "The Evolution of the Ape to Human" at the Peabody Museum, Yale University (link).
1986		Supposedly from: The Collapse of Evolution (1986) by Scott M. Huse, Chick Publications; and used in creation seminars of Kent Hovind. (link1, link2)
1996		(link)
c.2000		(link)
c.2000
c.2000
2004		The skeletal evolution of man as seen on the cover of Jared Diamond's 1991/2004 book The Third Chimpanzee.
2006		link
2007		link
2007		(link)
2008		(link)
2008		(link)
2008		Evolution of woman diagram from Edward Humes 2008 book Monkey Girl.

Further reading
● Weinberg, Steven. (1993). The First Three Minutes: a Modern View of the Origin of the Universe. Basic books.
● Olson, Steve. (2002). Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins. Houghton Mifflin Company.

External links
● Timeline of evolution – Wikipedia.
● List of molecules in interstellar space – Wikipedia.
● Human ancestry (species profiles and hominid imagery) – ArchaeologyInfo.com.
● Lloyd, Emma. (2008). “A Human Evolution Timeline”, Aug 31, BrightHub.com.