In Brower’s scenario the Earth is created on Sunday at midnight. Life in the form of the first bacterial cells appears on Tuesday morning around 8:00AM. For the next two and a half days the microcosm evolves, and by Thursday at midnight it is fully established, regulating the entire planetary system. On Friday around 4:00PM, the microorganisms invent sexual reproduction, and on Saturday, the last day of creation, all the visible forms of life evolve.

Around 1:30AM on Saturday the first marine animals are formed, and by 9:30AM the first plants come ashore, followed two hours later by amphibians and insects. At ten minutes before five in the afternoon, the great reptiles appear, roam the Earth in lush tropical forests for five hours, and then suddenly die out around 9:45PM. In the meantime the mammals have arrived on the Earth in the lat afternoon, around 5:30, and the birds in the evening, around 7:15.

Shortly before 10:00PM some tree-dwelling mammals in the tropics evolve into the first primates; an hour later some of those evolve into monkeys; and around 11:40PM the great apes appear. Eight minutes before midnight the first Southern apes stand up and walk on two legs. Five minutes later they disappear again. The first human species, Homo habilis, appears four minutes before midnight, evolves into Homo erectus half a minute later, and into the archaic forms of Homo sapiens thirty seconds before midnight. The Neanderthals command Europe and Asia from fifteen to four seconds before midnight. The modern human species, finally, appears in Africa and Asia eleven seconds before midnight and in Europe five seconds before midnight. Written human history begins around two-thirds of a second before midnight. (From the book “The Web of Life” (by Fritjof Capra), pages 281-2)