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What are the periods of life on earth broken into? | Socratic Geologic Time Scale, History Of Earth, 10 Interesting Facts, Mind Blowing Facts, Geology Rocks, Life On Earth, Earth Science, History Facts, Planet Earth

Earliest cellular life on earth evolved about 3.5 billion years ago during precambrian time from protobionts/coacervates. Life then amazingly diversified through natural selection till recently. **Geological history of earth is studied by dividing it in eons, then further dividing eons in eras, era in periods, period in epochs. Life appeared in Archaeozoic eon. Multicellular life appeared during Proterozoic eon. Currently it is Phanerozoic eon, that started about 540 million years ago. The…

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