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ChronoZoom
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A timeline of human evolution
To scroll left and right along the timeline, hover your mouse over the left or right areas. Centring the mouse pointer will stop the timeline from moving. Click on any of the date points to find out more about them.Welcome to Trailblazing, an interactive timeline for everybody with an interest in science. Compiled by scientists, science communicators and historians – and co-ordinated by Professor Michael Thompson FRS – it celebrates three and a half centuries of scientific endeavour and has been launched to commemorate the Royal Society’s 350th anniversary in 2010. Trailblazing is a user-friendly, ‘explore-at-your-own-pace’, virtual journey through science. It showcases sixty fascinating and inspiring articles selected from an archive of more than 60,000 published by the Royal Society between 1665 and 2010.
Trailblazing