Cambrian explosion
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The mass proliferation of almost every phyla in the animal kingdom. According to current research, this period of extreme diversification occured within a 5-10 million year span. This abrupt time of change asks many questions of biological evolution. Why did this sudden burst of diversity occur? What selection factors were at work? How did living things change that quickly? What was the beneficial mutation rate during this time? Can genomes withstand such pressures for longer periods? Could this occur again? Why are we currently in stasis compared with such a time as the Cambrian?
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