The Cambrian Explosion: evidence and uncertainty over palaeontology's greatest mystery
Автор: Life Through Time
Загружено: 2025-11-29
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The Cambrian Explosion is the time when animals appear and diversify rapidly in the fossil record. Once considered an intractable problem, the pendulum has since swung back to considering it largely solved. But is it..?
This video explains all the lines of evidence that feed into our understanding of the Cambrian Explosion, and how they fit together. It's a complex story, with different types of fossils, preserved in many different ways, and all contrasting with the predictions made by molecular clock techniques. Something has got to give... but what?
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Presenter: Joe Botting
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