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Timeline of life on Earth
4.6 Gya Earth Forms
4.5 Gya The moon forms after impact of a mars sized body
4.2 Gya-4.0 Gya Crust solidifies, oceans form.
4.2-3.5 Gya First life forms bacteria (likely got energy from chemosynthesis and/or photochemosynthesis)
~2.8 Gya Oxygen releasing photosynthesis (oxygen was toxic to most life forms)
~2.7 Gya First Eukaryotes (Cells with a nucleus)
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