Two Explosive Evolutionary Events Shaped Early History Of Multicellular Life

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ScienceDaily (Jan. 4, 2008) — Scientists have known for some time that most major groups of complex animals appeared in the fossils record during the Cambrian Explosion, a seemingly rapid evolutionary event that occurred 542 million years ago. Now Virginia Tech paleontologists, using rigorous analytical methods, have identified another explosive evolutionary event that occurred about 33 million years earlier among macroscopic life forms unrelated to the Cambrian animals. They dubbed this earlier event the "Avalon Explosion.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080103144451.htm

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1. Interesting. Thanks. nt

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2. very interesting

did you see the video of the computer model of evolution using clocks to debunk the idea of irreducible complexity? I don't have the link, but it's interesting and also experiences a few explosions like this where many combinations occur at various stages.