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  2. Silurian hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The Star Trek Voyager 1997 episode "Distant Origin" has the crew encounter the Voth, a spacefaring race that appear to have evolved on Earth from dinosaurs. When discussing this theory with a Voth scientist, Chakotay speculates that their ancestors evolved on an isolated continent that was destroyed by cataclysm, with all traces buried under ...

  3. History of atomic theory - Wikipedia

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    The current theoretical model of the atom involves a dense nucleus surrounded by a probabilistic "cloud" of electrons. Atomic theory is the scientific theory that matter is composed of particles called atoms. The definition of the word "atom" has changed over the years in response to scientific discoveries.

  4. Alvarez hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The collision would have released the same energy as 100,000,000 megatonnes of TNT (4.2 × 10 23 J), over a billion times the energy of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. [3] A 2016 drilling project into the peak ring of the crater strongly supported the hypothesis, and confirmed various matters that had been unclear until that ...

  5. Timeline of the evolutionary history of life - Wikipedia

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    Evolution of Homo antecessor. The last members of Paranthropus die out. 1 Ma First coyotes. 810 ka First wolves: 600 ka Evolution of Homo heidelbergensis. 400 ka First polar bears. 350 ka Evolution of Neanderthals. 300 ka Gigantopithecus, a giant relative of the orangutan from Asia dies out. 250 ka Anatomically modern humans appear in Africa.

  6. Dinosaur - Wikipedia

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    The Carnian-aged Chañares Formation of Argentina preserves primitive, dinosaur-like ornithodirans such as Lagosuchus and Lagerpeton in Argentina, making it another important site for understanding dinosaur evolution. These ornithodirans support the model of early dinosaurs as small, bipedal predators.

  7. History of subatomic physics - Wikipedia

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    This theory was a continuous field model developed around the ideas of luminiferous aether. When no experiment could produce evidence of such an ether, and in view of the growing evidence supporting the atomic model, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz developed a theory of electromagnetism based on "ions" that reproduced Maxwell's model. [5]: 77

  8. Nucleosynthesis - Wikipedia

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    Nucleosynthesis in stars and their explosions later produced the variety of elements and isotopes that we have today, in a process called cosmic chemical evolution. The amounts of total mass in elements heavier than hydrogen and helium (called 'metals' by astrophysicists) remains small (few percent), so that the universe still has approximately ...

  9. Atomism - Wikipedia

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    For example, in 1826 when Sir Humphry Davy presented Dalton the Royal Medal from the Royal Society, Davy said that the theory only became useful when the atomic conjecture was ignored. [75] English chemist Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie in 1866 published the first part of his Calculus of Chemical Operations [ 76 ] as a non-atomic alternative to ...