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The Cambrian Evidence That Darwin Failed to Comprehend

light on what was then unknown led the public to
regard the theories put forward as completely
reasonable.
Ever since, in fact, attempts have con-
tinued uninterrupted to find specimens of
intermediate forms that might account for
species’ sudden appearance in the
Cambrian Period. Paleontologists still
hope to find a few specimens from the pre-
Cambrian that are recognizably similar to
Cambrian fossils, which can let them con-
Stephen Jay Gould struct a supposedly evolutionary progression
between the Cambrian and earlier periods.
150 years went by. Advances in science and technology elicited
important information. Developments in such specialized fields as
biochemistry, biophysics, genetics and molecular biology demon-
strated there is such complete perfection in Earth’s living things at
the molecular level that they could not possibly have evolved.
Discoveries in the field of paleontology have unearthed a large
portion of the fossils still concealed in the
Earth’s sedimentary crust, but revealed not
one single intermediate form that might justify
the illusory process of evolution that
Darwin had postulated.
This was the 21st century’s most im-
portant contribution with regard to pa-
leontology. A large part of the world
had been excavated, and many fossil
specimens had been obtained as a
result of wide-ranging research. In
terms of the missing Cambrian

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