1. Scientific Theories and Laws
2. The First Decade (1936-1946)
4. The Second Decade (1946-1956)
6. The Third Decade (1956-1966)
8. The Fourth Decade (1966-1976)
10. The Fifth Decade (1976-1986)
12. The Sixth Decade (1986-1996)
14. The Seventh Decade (1996-2006)
15. The Theory of More than Everything
16. The Eighth Decade (2006-2016)
18. The Ninth Decade (2016-2026)
Appendix A Paintings
Appendix B TTOMTE and a Steady State Universe
Appendix C Musical Compositions
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They can start looking like the others, so they can get some eggs laid. A bird won't eat certain tasty butterflies because they look like broccoli to the bird.
What does it take to change a white moth into a black moth besides spray paint? In the 1400's, white moths filled the cities in England and lived quite peacefully because the birds didn't see them against whitish buildings. When people started using coal more, the smoke gradually blackened the buildings. The birds saw the white moths on the walls and started picking them off while black moths expanded. Now with pollution under control there, the white moths have made a comeback. Actually, no species changed in this case; both species existed side by side. This example only shows how changes in environment can determine which species may succeed in the end.
We will limit our description to life here on Earth, but we're not saying life can't occur elsewhere. So far, we don't have enough information to say much about life out there, but incoming meteorites do carry some evidence13 of the possibility.
Most books first describe what life is and then tell how living things changed from the early days starting about 3,800,000,000 years ago. We have to go into evolution first because we're going to go back before that time and show how life can arise from natural chemical changes.
This won't be a complete history of what went on before the first bacteria sprouted. In fact, much of the story is still under discussion.
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