The lost world of Darwin. Brasier M.

Docambrian breeds, storing about 80% of the history of the Earth, finally spoke. And their stories are incredible.

Martin Brasier, a professor of Paleobiology of the University of Oxford and a member of the NASA expert group in astrobiology and evolutionary biology, tells an exciting story about how scientists discovered a whole amazing world in the past of our planet - a period lost In time and inhabited by incredible creatures.

about 540 million years ago, a real miracle occurred on our planet: a completely fantastic number of new forms of life appeared. It happened so suddenly and the number of these forms was so great that the term “Cambrian explosion” was entrenched in science. We know about him, of course, from fossils found in the breeds of the Cambrian period, while the deposits of the Presembris period do not demonstrate anything like this. At the same time, Darwin also assumed that somewhere in the dokembria an amazing world of living organisms is hiding, which we cannot see. And then, finally, scientists were able to force the dokambrian breeds, which correspond to about 80 % of the history of the Earth. The “lost world”, which revealed the eyes of the affected observers, is truly unique, bright and incredibly beautiful.

For a long time, scientists spoke about the so -called Cambrian explosion, which occurred about 540 million years ago. It was during this period that an incredible number of a wide variety of life forms appeared on Earth. At least this is what the breeds of this period say that preserved traces of these organisms. The breeds of “dokambria”, describing about 80 % of the history of the Earth, did not know a hint of such a variety of life. So it was considered. But then these breeds spoke. And to be more precise - scientists have learned to read them. And they discovered an absolutely incredible “lost world”, populated by the most fantastic forms of life. Paleobiologist and astrobiologist Martin Brasier, one of those who opened this incredible world, invites readers to make an exciting excursion to the past, which was so long hidden from our eyes and which really amazes the imagination.