Review the information and structure of the Tree of Life Project at http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html. Then do some research and find some native New York species that are not a part of the Tree of Life. Learn how to create a Tree of Life web page by reviewing the contributors page at the Tree of Life. Then publish a web page for your species. You'll need to think about forming some committees, creating a project time line, and finding an advisor. You'll also have to learn a lot about phylogeny, and web publishing, but you can easily do that with some dedication and effort. (It's just like writing on paper once you get used to it!) You might even want to seek approval for your project from the Tree of Life Project so you can link your web page to their network. It consists of over 1300 web pages housed on 20 computers in four countries! Hey! If you don't put Schenectady's indigenous species on the web, who will?

4 million B.C. Bipedal species emerged
2 million B.C. Stone tools created
500,000 B.C. Fire tamed
200,000 B.C. Neanderthal man
30,000 B.C. Homo Sapiens		
20,000 B.C. Oil lamps & bows and arrows
12,000 B.C. Domestic animals
8,000 B.C. Agriculture begins
7,000 B.C. Pottery
6,000 B.C. Nets, rafts & sickles
5,000 B.C. Irrigation & scales for weighing
4,000 B.C. Copper ore & sundial
3,600 B.C. Bronze Age begins
3,500 B.C. Writing, river boats & wheeled carts
3,100 B.C. Egypt united
3,000 B.C. Candles
2,800 B.C. Calendar
2,650 B.C. Stone monuments (Sphinx)
2,500 B.C. Glass
2,000 B.C. Horses tamed
1,775 B.C. First surviving written law code
1,550 B.C. First known medical remedies
1,500 B.C. Alphabet developed
1,200 B.C. Water & sun resistant dyes
1,100 B.C. Phoenicians explore by sea
1,000 B.C. Iron Age begins
700 B.C. First zoo
640 B.C. First library, coins used
585 B.C. Solar eclipse predicted
520 B.C. Pythagorean theorem
510 B.C. First realistic geographical map
500 B.C. Abacus used, Venus named
440 B.C. Concept of atoms
400 B.C. Catapult devised
350 B.C. Ideas of Heliocentrism and a round Earth; Animals classified
312 B.C. Paved roads
300 B.C. Tides observed, geometry begins, arteries & veins distinguished
280 B.C. Brain parts described; Moon & Sun size estimated; First major lighthouse
260 B.C. Theory of levers
240 B.C. Circumference of Earth estimated
214 B.C. Great Wall of China begun
170 B.C. Parchment
150 B.C. Hipparchus calculates distance to moon 240,000 miles
134 B.C. Star map improved
100 B.C. Glass blowing
85 B.C.	Waterwheel invented
25	Earths climatic zones named
50	Steam power
250	Algebra begins
300	Metal stirrups on saddles
600	Moldboard added to plow
750	Acetic acid discovered
770	Horseshoes used
810	Zero added to number system
900	Horse collar used (plowing, pulling)
1025	Science of optics founded
1050	Crossbow invented
1054	New star appeared
1071	Forks used
1137	Flying buttresses used in architecture
1180	Windmill in Europe, Magnetic compass invented
1228	Coal mining begins in England
1249	Eyeglasses invented, gunpowder in Europe
1269	Magnetic poles described
1291	Mirrors invented
1298	Spinning wheel in Europe
1300	Sulfuric acid discovered
1316	First Anatomy book

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