From cosmic dust its birth Lifeless was the Earth Then bill-yun years or so Till the first cells show [Break] Microscopic, in the sea Starting Life's long journey From one form to the next Life will naturally select [Break] For the fittest traits Are preferred in mates Which as you may deduce Means more they ree-produce [Break] As Charles Darwin did explain Made evolution process plain With the fossil record Being Life's scoreboard [Break] Earth's whole story, see As a single day The first four hours it's free Of Life in any way [Break] Then near hours seventeen Single cells is all that's been With Cambrian Explosion Not till 8-40 P-M [Break] Dinosaurs go extinct One third of hour ago And Homo Sapiens, distinct Here for six seconds or so [Break] From cosmic dust its birth Lifeless was the Earth Then bill-yun years or so Till the first cells show [Break] Microscopic, in the sea Starting Life's long journey From one form to the next Life will naturally select [Break] For the fittest traits Are preferred in mates Which as you may deduce Means more they ree-produce [Break] As Charles Darwin did explain Made evolution process plain With the fossil record Being Life's scoreboard [Break] Plant life colonized the land At first just rock and sand For, later from their toil Came what we now call soil [Break] And animals then found Food and homes on dry ground Yet, evolution changes things In time, Life developed wings [Break] Taking to the skies Were huge dragonflies As reptiles underneath Fought with claws, spikes, and teeth [Break] But asteroid impact Showed what dyno’s lacked And let mammals rise To their present highs [Break] Now let’s end with focus On our favoured subject: us Does the fossil record show Ancestral forms not long ago [Break] In terms of our one-day clock A “Handy Man” did rock Utilise to fashion tools For this, Homo Habilis rules! [Break] ‘Bout 50 seconds in the past But this reign was not to last As half a minute to midnight Homo Erectus stands upright [Break] First hominin to tame fire Taking our jee-nuss higher Then less than 8 seconds only Neanderthals, to world icy [Break] And just seconds 5 point 6 Have Sapiens been in the mix Compared to all that arose We are by far the most verbose [Break] With greatest impact too Good and bad, both are true And soon we’ll settle Space Astounding is our race [Break] From cosmic dust its birth Lifeless was the Earth Then bill-yun years or so Till the first cells show [Break] Microscopic, in the sea Starting Life's long journey From one form to the next Life will naturally select [Break] For the fittest traits Are preferred in mates Which as you may deduce Means more they ree-produce [Break] As Charles Darwin did explain Made evolution process plain With the fossil record Being Life's scoreboard
