A Valuable Oversight. Futility Closet. Evolution Timeline - AndaBien. The background indicates inches and feet. 1/20th in. = roughly 100 thousand years. (108,000) 1 inch = about 2 million years. (2,160,000) 1 foot = about 26 million years. (25,920,000) The whole page is about 135 feet wide, almost half a football field, representing 3.5 billion years. (3,500,000,000) For more information, move your cursor over the bars.
To really gain some perspective, pay attention to the bottom scroll bar. To make this more accessible to the average person I have simplified the presentation of the evolutionary record. Students of paleontology will notice omissions. Zoom in by a factor of 1,000 on the Hominid Timeline, from walking upright to the present day.