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Review: Darwin's Lost World by Martin Brasier

By Douglas Palmer

4 February 2009

New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

THE seeming lack of fossils in Precambrian rocks was a problem for Darwin’s theory of evolution: where were the ancestors of the plethora of fossils in the earliest Cambrian strata? This is engaging account of the investigation by palaeontologists into whether the Cambrian explosion was really an outburst of life or only of fossils.

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Martin Brasier

OUP

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