OXFORD 9000
📚 name • entry_id 57769

Cambrian explosion

/ˈkam.bɹɪ.ən ɪkˈspləʊ.ʒən/
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explosión cámbrica • radiación evolutiva del Cámbrico
The relatively rapid appearance, during the Cambrian Period around 541 million years ago, of most major animal phyla, as demonstrated in the fossil record.
A major adaptive radiation took place during the Cambrian Period that resulted in the evolution of most of the known phyla (broad groupings of organisms) as well as other phyla tha…
Alternatively, if animals had a relatively long Precambrian history, why do so many kinds appear abruptly and more or less synchronously in the fossil record during Early Cambran t…
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