Your Inner Fish

by

Neil Shubin

Precambrian Era Term Analysis

All geologic time before 600 million-years-ago. It was originally thought that this time period held no complex organisms with bodies, until Sprigg’s creatures, the earliest known organisms with true bodies, were re-dated by Martin Glaessner to be from the Precambrian era.
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...Body of Evidence. Though humans may seem to have nothing in common with the early Precambrian bodies, those early bodies were actually made out of the very material that allows human... (full context)