Thread:Dar/Discussion (1)

Dear colleagues, One of the problems I face while referring to issues on evolution is the concept of time-line. Eocene specimen of primate - so what?

55 million years? I connect it to a few million years after the extinction of the Dinosaurs.That is rather cool.

But, then, what is so great? I always thought that primates were around along with the Dinosaurs.

So how do I kindle interest in my students who think I conflate into Darwin because he is one of my blood relatives!

So, How do I develop in students wonderment for this large time-frame of millions of years from the origin of oganisms (540 m yrs) and the billions of years of the geological'evolution' (4.6 b yrs)?

MC Arunan