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单词 cambrian explosion
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Cambrian explosion
Cambrian explosion n. Palaeontology a short episode of intense diversification of marine animal forms apparent from the fossil record of the Cambrian period (including the development of mineralized skeletons in many groups and the appearance of ancestral forms of most modern metazoan phyla) which is dated to about 535 to 525 million years ago; also figurative.
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1964 L. V. Berkner & L. C. Marshall in P. Brancazio & A. Cameron Origin & Evol. Atmospheres & Oceans vi. 117 No advanced precursors to the Cambrian evolutionary explosion should be expected until oxygenic levels presaged the opening of the Cambrian.]
1977 S. J. Gould et al. in Paleobiology 3 25/2 The actual history of life included a preequilibrial phase of rapidly rising diversity; it is called the Cambrian ‘explosion’.
1995 Nature 26 Oct. 682/1 The Cambrian Explosion occurred in a geological moment, and we have reason to believe that all major anatomical designs may have made their evolutionary appearance at that time.
2002 Internat. Rev. Law & Econ. (Nexis) 22 As information production has become more central to our economy, we have seen a ‘Cambrian explosion’ of exclusive private rights in information.
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