The text attributes the sun's planetary family to the near passage of a large dark system, drawing out a gaseous ancestor of the planets.

Meteoric accretion and contraction are described as bringing the young world to roughly its present mass and rotation.

Cooling crust, volcanic water vapour and the first world-wide ocean prepare the planet for life implantation.

The text describes the continental land mass breaking apart and drifting, raising modern mountain systems and repeatedly changing the coastlines.

Life Carriers are said to have planted three separate marine life patterns in the shallow warm waters of three inland seas.

A long period in which the text places the appearance and spread of marine invertebrates, early fishes and the first shore vegetation.

Continental emergence, coal-forming forests, and the rise and decline of the great reptiles.

Placental mammals expand and diversify across the emerged continents after the reptilian decline.

The text describes six successive glacial invasions covering northern Europe and North America, shaping where early humans could live.

A rapid succession of pre-human mammalian types is described on an island of the south-western Pacific region.

Twins born to primate parents are described as the first human beings, and as the first creatures on the planet to make a moral choice.

After the death of Andon and Fonta their descendants scatter, beginning the first human migrations across Asia.

The westernmost Andonic migration is said to have reached the coasts of England.

A superior Andonic branch establishes itself in the north-west Indian highlands; the text traces later human stocks to it.

A Badonan-derived line spreads widely and is later absorbed by the migrating Sangik peoples.

One Badonite family is described as producing nineteen children who founded six simultaneous lineages, each named by the text with a colour term.

The six Sangik groups leave the highlands in different directions, a movement the text uses to explain the later distribution of peoples.

A headquarters city is established on the Persian Gulf coast as the planet's first teaching centre.

The text lists early cultural centres arising after the rebellion, from Mesopotamia to the Nile and the Indus.

The Prince's staff is said to have defected, ending the Dalamatian teaching programme and isolating the planet.

Descendants of the defecting staff form a distinct mixed people centred on Mesopotamia.

The abandoned city is described as sinking beneath the waters of the Persian Gulf.

The text says the red Sangik peoples crossed the Bering land bridge into North America and were then isolated for a very long period.

A Material Son and Daughter are described as arriving in a prepared garden on a Mediterranean peninsula.

After the failure of their plan the pair are said to have left the first garden and settled between the Tigris and Euphrates.

The abandoned Mediterranean peninsula is described as sinking beneath the sea.

Over roughly twenty thousand years the Adamites are described as growing in Mesopotamia and sending out successive waves of emigrants.

Adamite, Nodite and superior evolutionary stocks blend into the Andites, the people the text credits with the last great pre-modern migrations.

Andite waves move through Turkestan into India, and later into China, carrying agriculture, animal domestication and new techniques.

Other Andite waves move west and north into Europe, the Nile valley and the Mediterranean islands.

The text places grain cultivation, animal domestication and the beginnings of settled civilisation in the Anatolian and Mesopotamian region.

A described inrush of water into the Mediterranean basin scatters the coastal peoples and accelerates Andite movement into Europe.

Displaced Mesopotamian and Mediterranean peoples are described as concentrating in Egypt and raising its culture.

Paper 81 summarises the material and social factors the text considers decisive in the emergence of modern civilisation.

Flooding of the Euphrates valley is described as ending the last of the Andite homeland settlements and scattering their inhabitants.