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EO Wilson. “Ants are possibly as close as we will ever see to what higher social organization might look like on another planet. They communicate almost entirely by smell and taste. They have extremely complicated societies.” https://youtu.be/RcGeewpiCr4 View in LinkedIn

PATCHY DATA. “The database of geomagnetic paleopoles thought to be of Precambrian age is ambiguous and undersampled. Age of magnetization is the most critical and least known parameter and only selectivity of data has enabled consistency with popular conclusions.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825219302636?via=ihub View in LinkedIn

TECTONIC SUPERCONTINENTS. “Illustrations have been devised of analogous plate-tectonic activity in the form of disruption and reassembly of hypothetical successive but similar Precambrian supercontinents Columbia and Rodinia.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825219302636?via=ihub View in LinkedIn

THE ORIGINS OF THE MYTH. “Because 1970s conjectures that whole-mantle convection and plate tectonics operated throughout most of Earth history dominate paleodynamic literature, studies of the magnetization of Precambrian rocks have mostly interpreted data in these terms.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825219302636?via=ihub View in LinkedIn

To see a World in a grain of sand," "And a Heaven in a wild flower," "Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand," "And Eternity in an hour.”" "― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence" " https://lnkd.in/dae9Yq4Q View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this first of two weekends considering Warren Hamilton’s magnetic shield hypothesis of the Cambrian explosion. It is a contribution to tectonics and fossil record ablation that together might start to add up. This period remains one if biology’s most unconvincing stories and has certainly been influenced by cherry-picking geological data. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825219302636?via=ihub View in LinkedIn

THE HYPOTHESIS. “This is because purported Precambrian magnetic poles in that region apparently record Phanerozoic magnetization of Precambrian rocks. Earth's strong dipolar internally generated magnetic field may have originated only about 600 m.y. ago.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825219302636?via=ihub View in LinkedIn

POSSIBLE SALVAGE. “Phanerozoic remagnetization of Precambrian rocks? The study of the large paleomagnetic database for Precambrian and Phanerozoic rocks of Europe east of Britain and the Carpathians by Bazhenov et al. (2016) provides a possible avenue for solving the conflicts.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825219302636?via=ihub View in LinkedIn

NEVER FORGET THIS. “Another major drawback of the Standard Model is the fact that it uses two predominant components, dark matter and dark energy, supposed to represent about 95% of the universe energy density, but which have remarkably resisted to experimental identification so far.” https://lnkd.in/daA2SgMy View in LinkedIn

GROUP THINK OF THE ERA. “These are only a few examples of the many that exist. Possibly relevant is the observation that all of these aggregates share similar features and so there may have been little or no dispersal or aggregation until latest Proterozoic time (Meert, 2014).” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825219302636?via=ihub View in LinkedIn