{"id":156961,"date":"2023-02-03T17:23:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T23:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/biological-big-bang-how-we-solved-darwins-dilemma"},"modified":"2023-02-03T17:23:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T23:23:54","slug":"biological-big-bang-how-we-solved-darwins-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/biological-big-bang-how-we-solved-darwins-dilemma","title":{"rendered":"Biological Big Bang: How we solved Darwin\u2019s dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/biological-big-bang-how-we-solved-darwins-dilemma2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Evolution\u2019s rapid pace after the Cambrian explosion<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Though the work of Schopf and other paleobiologists continues to fill in the Precambrian fossil record, questions remain about the pace of the Cambrian explosion. What triggered life to evolve so fast?<\/p>\n<p>The question has intrigued scientists of many disciplines for decades. Interdisciplinary collaboration has wrought a wealth of evidence from diverse perspectives \u2014 geochemical, paleoenvironmental, geological, anatomical, and taxonomic \u2014 that describes how biological organisms evolved in concert with changing environmental conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evolution\u2019s rapid pace after the Cambrian explosion Though the work of Schopf and other paleobiologists continues to fill in the Precambrian fossil record, questions remain about the pace of the Cambrian explosion. What triggered life to evolve so fast? The question has intrigued scientists of many disciplines for decades. Interdisciplinary collaboration has wrought a wealth [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,33,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-cosmology","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}