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Precambrian Paleobiology: Precedents, Progress, and Prospects
2021
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
In 1859, C. R. Darwin highlighted the "inexplicable" absence of evidence of life prior to the beginning of the Cambrian. Given this lack of evidence and the natural rather than theological unfolding of life's development Darwin espoused, over the following 50 years his newly minted theory was disputed. At the turn of the 19th century, beginning with the discoveries of C. D. Walcott, glimmerings of the previously "unknown and unknowable" early fossil record came to light – but Walcott's
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