Life quickly finds a way: the surprisingly swift end to evolution's big bang
- Written by Mike Lee, Professor in Evolutionary Biology (jointly appointed with South Australian Museum), Flinders University
A modern arthropod (the centipede _Cormocephalus_) crawls over its Cambrian 'flatmate' (the trilobite _Estaingia_). Michael Lee / South Australian Museum and Flinders University, CC BY-NC-ND
The Cambrian explosion more than 500 million years ago is often considered biology’s “big bang”.
Virtually all the major kinds of animals...
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