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To: LibWhacker
Scientists still have not figured out what triggered the enormous increase in the diversity of life in the Cambrian era.

Not decided, but possibly related to the development of sight.

5 posted on 02/06/2005 8:37:18 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

Interesting (but not surprising!) that sight took so long to develop.


7 posted on 02/06/2005 9:02:51 PM PST by LibWhacker
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