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biological big bang

biological big bang proper noun: the Cambrian explosion (the rapid appearance, around 541 million years ago, of most major animal phyla).

Proper noun

biological big bang

  1. The Cambrian explosion (the rapid appearance, around 541 million years ago, of most major animal phyla).
    • Brocks said the new study suggested the Ediacaran biota “already contained some of the creatures that gave rise to the [Cambrian] explosion, to the rise of modern animals”. The Cambrian explosion, also called the biological big bang, was a period about 538.8m years ago when almost all major animal...2022 November 22, Donna Lu, “The real paleo diet: researchers find traces of world’s oldest meal in 550m-year-old fossil”, in The Guardian

Forms of biological big bang

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alternative formBiological Big Bang

Questions about biological big bang

What does biological big bang mean?
Biological big bang means the Cambrian explosion (the rapid appearance, around 541 million years ago, of most major animal phyla).
What part of speech is biological big bang?
Biological big bang is a proper noun.

Words near biological big bang in the dictionary

  1. biologging
  2. biologic
  3. biologic time
  4. biological
  5. biological anthropology
  6. biological big bang
  7. biological clock
  8. biological clocks
  9. biological control
  10. biological controls
  11. biological determinism

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