Führung am Evolutionsweg – 4,6 Milliarden Jahre Erdgeschichte auf 460 Metern

In the organizer's words:

Guided tour along the evolutionary path - 4.6 billion years of the earth's history in 460 meters
The evolutionary path depicts the 4 billion year long history of life proportionally correct on 400 meters. It runs along Grünewaldstrasse from the Aquazoo-Löbbecke Museum to Rotterdamer Strasse on the Rhine. On the basis of 20 panels, evolution can be traced through the senses: from the formation of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago, to the first traces of life 4 billion years ago, the "invention" of photosynthesis, the eukaryote, calcareous skeletons, teeth and the daring land journey of fish to the neocortex. It couldn't be clearer. The special thing about this evolutionary path is that it is proportionally correct: every millimeter of the path corresponds to 10,000 years. 1 centimeter is 100,000 years - 10 centimeters correspond to 1 million years and 1 meter to 10 million years. This makes the dinosaurs and the entire Mesozoic era a fairly recent phenomenon that took place over the last 20 meters of the 460-meter-long path. The immense period of time that life has already passed can be experienced and experienced in the truest sense of the word along this path.
The path makes us realize that we are the current living end of an unbroken chain of life that is 4 billion years old and constantly flowing. Our ancestors were not only apes, but also fish and bacteria. All life on earth is related to each other and the transitions between species are fluid. Thus, there are no defined, static living beings at all, as our concepts would have us believe. Each individual is a temporary and fluid mutation in space-time. A species is a probability cloud of closely related individuals that are all slightly different from one another. Scientific research into evolution is only 200 years old and is turning our view of the world upside down. Although Heraclitus already said it 2,500 years ago: everything flows.

The guided tour for adults starts at 1 pm.
The meeting point is the first evolution sign, to the left of the main entrance to the Aquazoo Löbbecke Museum. Registration is not required.
Contact: evoweg@aufklaerungsdienst.de

DA! member Dr. Ingo Orth leads the way
The trail also has its own website, where you can find more detailed information about the biology of each station as well as translations of the texts in English, French, Polish, Croatian and Turkish.
TAKE TIME FOR EVOLUTION - AFTER ALL, IT TOOK TIME FOR YOU TOO.

Price information:

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