Notes From An Apocalypse Science Pick of the day
Current state of conjecture about the Cambrian Explosion, a threshold some 540 million years ago when advanced animal life — cognition, basically — appeared on earth. Why, and how? “It’s like somebody flipped a light switch. The rise in diversity and in disparity is unequalled by any other moment in Earth’s history. Take all the creative power of the last five hundred million years of animal evolution, compress it down to a fraction of a geological instant – that’s the power of the Cambrian Explosion” (4,300 words)
