Cambrian Explosion: role of China (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, March 08, 2014, 15:05 (3913 days ago) @ David Turell

The fossils in China were more definitive than the Canadian findings 15 years ago. This is a fascinating article expressing my thoughts exactly, as I have presented them before:-"Today, as a result of Chinese paleontology, biologists must choose between classic Darwinism and "saltation," the idea of evolution in quick jumps, says biologist Holland. Chinese gossil discoveries have wrought havoc upon his once-tidy tree of life: "You just hardly know what order to put the material in now. I mean, you might as well just present the phyla alphabetically. It's come to that."-"In China, the Cambrian mystery has recently inspired the building of large new government-sponsored research centers devoted to its investigation. At the heart of their research lies a declaration anathema in the West: a proclamation of the mystery of animal origins on Earth. Rather than "survival of the fittest," Chen believes scientists should focus on why life kept evolving beyond the fittest. Microbacteria are the most successful forms of life, Chen noted, since they make up most of the Earth's bio-mass and have survived while all other forms have a way of going extinct. Complex life is less capable of making adaptations. If all we have to depend upon is chance and competition, the conventional forces of evolution, Chen said, "then complex, highly evolved life, such as the human, has no reason to appear." (my bold, my reasoning)-http://www.fredheeren.com/washtimes.htm