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Why study Cambrian explosion rhetoric?

  • Cambrian rhetoric has been dramatic since Agassiz and Darwin (it has been made to speak, or not to speak, of our place in the cosmos)
  • Recent finds in China, outshining Canada's Burgess Shale, put the Cambrian explosion on the cutting edge of paleontological field work
  • S.J. Gould's December 1998 Cambrian explosion clash with Simon Conway Morris makes it exciting and timely (Marxist-atheist evolutionary paleontologist vs. Christian evolutionary paleontologist). See Gould vs. C. Morris images and weird Cambrian life.
Charles Doolittle Walcott discovered
the Burgess Shale fauna in 1909 (back-next)

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Gould's cone and inverted cone (back-next)

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Conway Morris iconographically reviews "origin of disparity" options (back-next)

 

 

Weird Cambrian life: In 1977 Conway Morris categorized Dinomischusinto its own animal phylum--Gould 1989 drawing; anus & mouth in close proximity (back-next)

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