Template: Nature timeline

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 | bar1-text= [[Chronology of the universe#Dark Ages|<span style="color:white;">Dark Ages</span>]]
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 | bar3-text= [[Scale factor (cosmology)#Matter-dominated era|<span style="color:#99ffff;">Matter-dominated<br/>era</span>]]
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 | note2=[[Stellar population#Population III stars|Earliest stars]]<!--- per https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-02616-8 (-13.6)]] - 13.6 bya --->
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 | note10= <!--- [[Accelerating expansion of the universe|cosmic speed-up]] -- est time of 6.0 bya seems supported by several sources - see => [[Talk:Accelerating expansion of the universe#Error in Acceleration time?]] --->

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 | note15=[[Geological history of oxygen|Atmospheric oxygen]]

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 | note17=[[Francevillian biota|Earliest multicellular life]]
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 | note20=[[Cambrian explosion|Cambrian explosion]]

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 | note21=[[Mammal|Earliest mammals]]

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 | note22=[[Ape|Earliest apes]] / [[Human|humans]]

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