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Cambrian explosions

Cambrian explosions is the plural of Cambrian explosion.

Meaning of Cambrian explosion

Proper noun

Cambrian explosion (plural Cambrian explosions)

  1. (evolutionary biology) The relatively rapid appearance, during the Cambrian Period around 541 million years ago, of most major animal phyla, as demonstrated in the fossil record.
    • 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 time? Was there an external environmental factor that either prevented animals from becoming fossilizable (i.e., large...1992, “Evolution of the Earliest Animals”, in J[ames] William Schopf, editor, Major Events in the History of Life [Proceedings from a Symposium Convened by the IGPP Center for the Study of Evolution...

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Questions about Cambrian explosions

What is Cambrian explosions the plural of?
Cambrian explosions is the plural of Cambrian explosion.

Words near Cambrian explosions in the dictionary

  1. Cambria
  2. Cambria County
  3. Cambria Heights
  4. Cambrian
  5. Cambrian explosion
  6. Cambrian explosions
  7. Cambrian Mountains
  8. Cambrian Park
  9. Cambrian symbol
  10. Cambrian symbols
  11. Cambrians

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