Palaeontology - Lost children of the Cambrian

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Budd, GE [1 ]
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[1] Uppsala Univ, Dept Earth Sci, S-75236 Uppsala, Sweden
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10.1038/427205a
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The initial flowering of animal life on Earth occurred during the Cambrian, some 540–490 million years ago. Fossil embryos from that time can provide clues about the origins of the major animal groups.
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