Why Do We Believe the Cambrian Explosion Occurred So Suddenly

question 125

Multiple Choice

Why do we believe the Cambrian explosion occurred so suddenly?

• A) oxygen concentrations reached critical levels necessary to support more complex life
• B) organisms became sufficiently complex that more diversity became possible
• C) climate change due the end of the last snowball Earth phase
• D) all of these

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