Paleonet: Cambrian Explosion

[Brandt, Danita]

See Beasecker, et al. 2020, GSA Today, v. 30, p. 26-27
First use we could find was in an experimental High School biology curriculum, 1961


Dr. Danita Brandt

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Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Michigan State University

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Does anyone know when the term “Cambrian Explosion” was first used and by whom?



Alexander Glass

Senior Lecturer

Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies

Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences

Nicholas School of the Environment

Duke University, Durham, NC



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