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The Cambrian Evidence That Darwin Failed to Comprehend

                        Burgess Shale Fauna: Discovery of A Miracle
                        The differences between the creatures that suddenly appear in the
                        Cambrian are enormous. In fact these differences are so large many of
                        these animals are one of a kind. Nothing like them existed before and
                        nothing like them has ever appeared again. 44
                        Charles Doolittle Walcott was a paleontologist and the secre-
                   tary (1907-1927) of the Smithsonian Institution, America’s national
                   museum. He learned that railway workers in the Burgess region
                   near the Canadian Rocky Mountains had discovered a number of
                   fossils, and made visits to the area to see for himself and look for
                   specimens of the fossils in question, beginning in July 1907.










                                                      Canadian Rockies
































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