The Cambrian Explosion: Why Life Suddenly Got Complex
Roughly 541 million years ago, almost every major animal body plan still alive today appears in the fossil record. What really happened in the Cambrian Explosion, what caused it, and what it does and does not tell us about evolution.
April 23, 2026
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