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THE TRANSITIONAL-FORM DILEMMA

than resolving Darwin’s dilemma, the rel-
atively large quantities of Cambrian and
Precambrian fossils have added entirely
A velvet caterpillar
new ones. To such an extent, in fact, that
the majority of paleontologists, even in-
cluding prominent evolutionists, are con-
vinced that the major animal groups
emerged during the early part of the
Cambrian Period, and evidently had no
A shrimp-like trilobite
predecessors.
This phenomenon began to be re-
ferred to, even in evolutionist publica-
tions, as “The Cambrian Explosion” and
“The Biological Big Bang.”
A hyolithid

The Burgess Shale fossil bed re-
gion in the Canadian province of
British Columbia
A hard-spined larva

A hairy larva

A batrak-like organism

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