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Cambrian Explosion: The Construction of Animal Biodiversity
First EditionDouglas Erwin; James Valentine
©2013
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Covering one of the most fantastic transitions in the history of life, Cambrian Explosion: The Construction of Animal Biodiversity synthesizes research from many fields to explain why life suddenly blossomed in its diversity nearly 530 million years ago.
Table of Contents
Historical and Geological Settings
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Geological Context of Ediacaran and Cambrian Events
Chapter 3: The Environmental Context of the Ediacaran and Early Cambrian
The Record of Early Metazoan Evolution
Chapter 4: The Metazoan Tree of Life
Chapter 5: Dawn of Animals: The Ediacara Biota
Chapter 6: Metazoan Architectures of the Cambrian Explosion
Biological Processes
Chapter 7: The Construction of Metazoan Ecosystems
Chapter 8: The Evolution of the Metazoan Genome and the Cambrian Explosion
Evolutionary Dynamics of the Cambrian Explosion
Chapter 9: Ghostly Ancestors
Chapter 10: Constructing the Cambrian
Appendix: First Appearances of Major Metazoan clades in the Fossil Record
References
Index