To: SeekAndFind
Adding oxygen doesn't imply or demonstrate that neo-Darwinian mechanism (random mutation + natural selection) produced the new functioning body plans.
To: nightlight7
nightlight7:
"Adding oxygen doesn't imply or demonstrate that neo-Darwinian mechanism (random mutation + natural selection) produced the new functioning body plans." Sure, the words they use are "suggest" and "may", so what we are looking at here are: at least four new factors introduced onto the Earth just before the "Cambrian Explosion".
Those were:
- The melting of "snowball earth" said to be caused by increased volcanic activity.
- The breakup of the Gonwandaland super-continent, which changed ocean currents, transporting deep-ocean nutrients to shallower waters.
- Increasing oxygen levels caused by algal blooms resulting from those increased nutrients.
- Increasingly complex life forms toward the end of the pre-Cambrian:
117 posted on
11/16/2014 1:43:00 PM PST by
BroJoeK
(a little historical perspective..)
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