Author: Lorentz
Date: Aug 1, 2008 10:22
I just read of an interesting theory that the Cambrian Explosion was touched off by the evolution of eyes in a prototrilobite. The new animals, with imaging optics,... Arthropods other than trilobites develop eyes, although much later than trilobites. So trilobites eyes touched off the explosion in diversity at the beginning of the Cambrian. However, I have a problem with this theory. ...
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