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Two Explosive Evolutionary Events Shaped Early History Of Multicellular Life

Possibly fuelled by increasing oxygen levels. This first period appears to have produced the first bilateral animals that left fossil traces, with a contemporary flatworm study suggesting bilateral emergence preceded triblastic bodies. Evidence has been growing that there was an extended and fruitful period before the Cambrian; this gene study questions the Cambrian Explosion.