Re: The Cambrian Explosion

Jim Foley (jimf@vangelis.ncrmicro.ncr.com)
Thu, 7 Dec 95 11:36:48 MST

>>>>> On Thu, 07 Dec 95 06:33:01 EST, sjones@iinet.net.au (Stephen Jones) said:

JT>Did anyone else get a chance to review the most recent issue of
>_Time_ magazine: "Evolution's Big Bang"? It's cover story is on the
>most recent discoveries related to the Cambrian explosion. ......

>> Thanks for posting this. On the Australian fidonet Creation v
>> Evolution echo I have been taunted about the Ediacaran forms as a
>> "failed experiment". It now looks more like a single comples event.

The Ediacaran fauna is Precambrian (i.e. before the Burgess fauna), and
quite different from the Burgess Shale stuff, so the "failed experiment"
explanation is still viable.

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