an unbroken line of ancestry stretching back four billion years 一条绵延40亿年的连续谱系
In the four billion years of life on our planet, 地球生命的40亿年历程中
Four thousand meters up, the Altiplano desert in Chile... 海拔四千米的智利阿尔蒂普拉诺沙漠
In the four million years since the Permian extinction... 二叠纪灭绝之后的400万年中
can trace its heritage back four billion years. 都可以追溯到40亿年前
The rise and fall of these dynasties, over four billion years, 40多亿年来 这些王朝的兴衰