FRAGMENT FROM NATURE explores the morphological explosion in animal body plans half a billion years ago, in the Cambrian period, and why this has essentially ground to a halt. In the second part of this two weekend posting, there is a deeper exploration of the subject from a genetic perspective ensues. Extinctions are much easier to explain than a massive expansion in biological diversity that arrives quickly and flattens out. What were the reasons for both the emergence and end of massive diversification?
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022