In the Blink of an Eye: How Vision Sparked the Big Bang of Evolution.(Book Review)

From: Journal of College Science Teaching | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

In the Blink of an Eye: How Vision Sparked the Big Bang of Evolution

Andrew Parker. 2003. 316 pp. $15. Perseus Publishing, New York. ISBN: 0465054382.

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This is an excellent window into one of the great mysteries of evolution, the "Cambrian explosion." In one of the most systematic arguments I have ever read, the author presents the case for why the sudden emergence and radical diversification of new species took place 543 million years ago.

Parker's premise is that the evolution of sight right at the pre-Cambrian/Cambrian boundary opened up ...

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