Proponents of deep divergence don’t deny that the fossil evidence has come up short. Instead, they adopt one of the versions of the artifact hypothesis to account for that missing evidence. They then argue that there was no “explosion” of animal forms in the Cambrian, but rather a “long fuse” of animal evolution and diversification lasting many millions of years leading up to what only looks like an “explosion” of animal life in the Cambrian,
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