Ape to Man
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1. The Cambrian Explosion (millions of species suddenly appearing in the fossil record with no time to have evolved) = not a small problem.
discipler
(Aug 9 05, 18:25)That's actually a very nice point.
JazX
(Aug 10 05, 05:16)
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Actually alot of work being down in the Complexity of science area does seem to make a good argument for an emergent explosion of diversity after certain preconditions are met.Similar allegorical happenings seem to happen in other areas of nature and even jhuman society. For example, civilization is only about 10,000 years old, yet man exiosted for millions of years before that - what caused this explosion and diversity of human society models? Biological and environmental conditions and population density seem to point to a tipping point into this new "diversity" and I would suspect that the same can be said of the Cambrian period.
You see it reflected in economic situations as well - explosions of diverse forms of products, the market place matures and it settles for a few variations on a successful theme. I think this is a deep underlying organizing principle of nature - not a arrow pointing to holes in science.