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References

Zeros added to the numeral "6" make up a progression that puts an exact date on the missing link:

YEARS AGO

TIME SCALE FIRST DATE OF ORIGIN OF

6,000,000,000
600,000,000
60,000,000
6,000,000
600,000
60,000
6000

Geological


Archaeological


Chronological

Sun and solar system
Earliest vertebrates
True primates
Missing link
Homo sapiens
Homo sapiens sapiens
Modern man

Existence


I exist/I am


Identity

Each date in the progression falls within the limits of scientific error. Only those events leading to the advent of Modern man are included in the progression. The progression was discovered in 1974. Science has since confirmed the date of the missing link. A 0-date B.C. is assumed.

<<<<<ORIGINAL REFERENCES USED (1974 and later):

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"Astronomers believe, from theories of stars and galaxies, that the Milky Way galaxy is about 10 billion years old, and that the sun formed about 6 billion years ago." - "Evolution of the Earth", Robert H. Dott and Roger L Batten, 1971, p. 89.
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"With the...Cambrian period a sort of baseline is drawn in the history of the earth - a baseline at which the fossil record of living things begins [600 million years ago]. The Cambrian period has left us with an especially rich trove of fossils, in sharp contrast to Precambrian times." - "Life Before Man", Time-Life Books, 1972, p. 29. The date that this source refers to can also be found in the Funk and Wagnalls' Hammond World Atlas", ©1976, p. 172.
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"Sixty million years ago, when all mammals were rather primitive, one group changed...This group of mammals has since evolved into the modern primates". - "Human Origins", Richard E. Leakey, 1982, p. 9.
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"The Homo line (of man) was born alongside its australopithecine cousins in Africa, five or six million years ago." - "Origins", Richard E. Leakey & Roger Lewin, 1977, p. 121.
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"Homo sapiens, genus and species to which all modern human beings belong and to which are attributable fossil remains of humans perhaps 600,000 years old." - Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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"Applying a rough time scale, we can say that the step from erectus to sapiens occurred around half a million years ago, and the refinement to sapiens sapiens perhaps fifty thousand years ago." "Origins", Richard E. Leakey and Roger Lewin, 1977, p. 122.
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"Potters' wheels are known to have been in existence at least 6,000 years ago and it is possible that wheeled transport began equally far back." "Works of Man" , Ronald W. Clark, 1985, p. 11.

From the date of the earliest vertebrates a skeletal mass evolved, the structure of which enabled the primate to stand up as an avowal of "I". In early man, erectness of posture freed up the opposable thumb. Homo habilis/erectus = handy man. Homo sapiens = maker of fire; homo sapiens sapiens = maker of tools. Evolutionary step taken = from user to maker.

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YEARS AGO
DATES IN EVOLUTION
6,000,000,000 = the age of the sun and solar system.
Reference: As our solar system began to come together some 6-7 billion years ago, the sun formed within a cloud of dust and gas that continued to shrink upon itself by its own gravitational forces. This caused it to undergo the fusion process and give off light, heat and other radiation. During this process, the remaining clouds of gas and dust that surrounded the sun began to form into smaller lumps called planetesimals, which eventually formed into the planets we know today.
http://www.ecology.com/origins-of-life/earths-beginnings/.
Note: The age of the earth (4.6) is not a factor in the progression.
600,000,000 = the date of the earliest vertebrates.
Reference: The earliest evidence of life consists of microscopic fossils of bacteria that lived as early as 3.6 billion years ago. Most Precambrian fossils are very tiny. Most species of larger animals that lived in later Precambrian time had soft bodies, without shells or other hard body parts that would create lasting fossils. The first abundant fossils of larger animals date from about 600 million years ago. http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761553004/Paleontology.html.
Note: The date that life first appeared on earth (3.6) is not a factor in the progression.
60,000,000 = the date of modern primates.
Reference: The first known supposed primates date to about 60 million years ago,
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-51456/primate.
6,000,000 = the date of the missing link.
Reference #1: Hominids walked upright early in evolution - A chimp-sized human ancestor walked upright 6 million years ago, CNN news article dated September 3, 2004.
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/09/03/science.hominid.reut/index.html.
Reference #2: The newest fossils have brought scientists tantalizingly close to the time when humans first walked upright -- splitting off from the chimpanzees. Their best guess now is that it happened at least 6 million years ago.
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101010723/timeline.html.
600,000 = the date of homo sapiens.
Reference: Homo Sapiens Evolve 600,000 Years BP
http://www.pbs.org/deepspace/timeline/tl12.html.
60,000 = the date of homo sapiens sapiens.
Possible Reference: Richard Klein, an anthropologist at Stanford University, ... thinks Homo sapiens may have been anatomically modern 150,000 years ago, but did not become behaviorally modern until about 50,000 years ago, when a genetic mutation related to cognition made us smarter.
He theorizes that this change in thinking ability enabled modern humans to craft sophisticated tools, build permanent lodgings, hunt more effectively, and possibly develop language. It also led to greater travel.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/12/1212_021213_journeyofman.html.
6,000 = the date of modern man.
Reference:

All dates in the progression are based on occurrence as per significance. This is to say that man is not an ape. Man is half "ape", half man. The "ape" half is not actually an ape. The advent of modern man took place at the time of Adam and Eve. Apparently according to the progression, the significance of relativity was not realized until 1940. The progression independently validates radioactive dating techniques.

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