Human Genome project . Large scale mapping of gene base begun. Its descendant, Homo sapiens, spreads throughout Europe. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle write on nature and ethics, and form the basis of Western philosophy for the next milennia. Archimedes estimates PI, and Pythagoras formulates his theorm for right-angled triangles.
Barbarian tribes invade Rome, civilization splinters.
Descartes also achieves a new synthesis between Geometry and calculus. Newton revolutionises science with deterministic, universal laws, and publishes the Principia Physica . Laplace takes determinism to its logical conclusion by conceiving a formula which would embrace the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and the lightest atom. Cajal and Golgi both given the nobel prize for physiology. Quantum mechanics and indeterminism.