{"id":168631,"date":"2023-07-29T22:22:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T03:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/avalon-explosion-life-on-earth-didnt-arise-as-described-in-textbooks"},"modified":"2023-07-29T22:22:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T03:22:40","slug":"avalon-explosion-life-on-earth-didnt-arise-as-described-in-textbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/avalon-explosion-life-on-earth-didnt-arise-as-described-in-textbooks","title":{"rendered":"Avalon Explosion: Life on Earth Didn\u2019t Arise As Described in Textbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/avalon-explosion-life-on-earth-didnt-arise-as-described-in-textbooks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>No, oxygen didn\u2019t catalyze the swift blossoming of Earth\u2019s first multicellular organisms. The result defies a 70-year-old assumption about what caused an explosion of oceanic fauna hundreds of millions of years ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Between 685 and 800 million years ago, the Avalon explosion \u2014 a forerunner era of the more famed Cambrian explosion \u2014 marked the emergence of multicellular organisms in Earth\u2019s oceans. Prior to this era, the world was dominated by single-celled amoeba, algae, and bacteria for over 2 billion years. The Avalon explosion saw a sudden surge in biodiversity, with sea sponges and other complex multicellular organisms replacing their simpler, single-celled counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, it was postulated that this significant leap in evolutionary complexity was triggered by increased oxygen levels. However, this is being disproved by recent research by the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, the University of Southern Denmark, and Lund University, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, oxygen didn\u2019t catalyze the swift blossoming of Earth\u2019s first multicellular organisms. The result defies a 70-year-old assumption about what caused an explosion of oceanic fauna hundreds of millions of years ago. Between 685 and 800 million years ago, the Avalon explosion \u2014 a forerunner era of the more famed Cambrian explosion \u2014 marked the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168631","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=168631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}