Palaeocast
A free webseries exploring the fossil record and the evolution of life on Earth.
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Episode 177: Cambrian Fecal Revolution (opens the original)
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The Cambrian Explosion is one of the most significant events in evolutionary history. Classically, it describes the sudden appearance of complex fossils (including all major animal groups) at the beginning of the Cambrian Period. Before then it was thought that only relatively simple single-celled or multicellular life existed. We now understand this event to be a lot more nuanced, recognising many of the geological biases at play and having discovered complex fossils in the earlier Ediacaran Pe
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