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Mini sponge fossil sheds new light on timing of early evolution
The sponge lends credence to the argument that early animal adaptations didn't happen all of sudden, but began earlier and happened more gradually. Proponents of this explanation contend that the Cambrian explosion was not the result of rapid speciation, but the simply the result of environmental and biological factors which made fossils likely to be preserved.
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