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Rethinking the Cambrian Explosion: Before Shells and Limbs, There Was the Brain


A new hypothesis proposes that the Cambrian Explosion -- the sudden burst of animal diversity 500 million years ago -- was not driven by shells or limbs, but by the early evolution of complex nervous systems.

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