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Review: Darwin’s Lost World by Martin Brasier

Why an apparent lack of fossils in pre-Cambrian rocks caused a problem for Darwin's theory of evolution
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Review: Darwin's Lost World by Martin Brasier

THE seeming lack of fossils in Precambrian rocks was a problem for Darwin鈥檚 theory of evolution: where were the ancestors of the plethora of fossils in the earliest Cambrian strata? This is engaging account of the investigation by palaeontologists into whether the Cambrian explosion was really an outburst of life or only of fossils.

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Martin Brasier

OUP

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