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The Cambrian Evidence That Darwin Failed to Comprehend

ed the fossil record after the Cambrian. Contrary to Darwinist ex-
pectations, there was no increase in the numbers of phyla. And
when some of those phyla became extinct, there was even a corre-
sponding reduction in their numbers. For that reason, on the level of
basic physical structures alone, the Cambrian is more biologically
complex than the present.

The Cambrian Explosion: A Dazzling Variety of
Life
The Cambrian is the oldest known period containing multi-
celled organisms with very different and complex structures. The
first rock strata belonging to this period were discovered in North
Wales by the British geologist Adam Sedgwick in 1835.
Inspired by the original Latin name for Wales, Cambria,
Sedgwick named this period the Cambrian. According to dates pub-
lished by the International Subcommission on Cambrian
Stratigraphy in 2002, the Cambrian Period is regarded as having be-
gun 545 million years ago and ended 490 million years ago. It is al-

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