The objective of this project was to establish and to discuss the timeline (absolute or relative) of the events that led to the emergence of life on Earth, since the formation of the solar system 4.57 billion years ago to the explosion of life in the Precambrian some 540 million years ago.
This interdisciplinary project emerged during a CNRS summer school organized in 2003 in Propriano - Exobio'03 - and continued during two workshops held in 2004 at the Château Monlot-Capet in Saint-Emilion and Abbadia Castle (Academy of Sciences) in Hendaye. (below is a picture of the implementation of the chronological "proto-frize" constructed from “post-it” representing events (considered as ?) major for the appearance of life on Earth and stuck / unstuck / re-stuck on a list without end, after multes interdisciplinary discussions ...)