was Stephen Jay Gould wrote a book called "Wonderful Life." And it was about the Burgess Shale and the Cambrian explosion. So the Cambrian explosion is a fairly abrupt appearance of animals in the fossil record. And it's really in the space of a few million years practically you go from no fossils of animals to lots of phyla of different animal groups.
So the branchings occurred earlier, before what's known as the Cambrian Explosion. Then in the Cambrian , life changed dramatically. Rather than soft bodied-animals that look a bit like macaroons or bathmats, you'd have animals that looked something like this.
is what's now accelerating, exponentially, this discovery process. It's like a little Cambrian explosion of discovery of acoustic communication in lots of other species. Yeah, definitely. And I'll want to come back to that point about the democratization of the technology in a bit, but one of the takeaways that I had
And biology, evolution has to respond to that. And somewhere around there is when you get the Cambrian explosion, is when suddenly every body plan, you know, evolution goes on an orgy, essentially. So yeah, it does look like that chaos or that turmoil was actually very helpful to evolution.
It was really about sucking in hydrogen and CO2 and making organic molecules to grow. And then sometime before or around the time of the Cambrian explosion, oxygen levels go up in the atmosphere. And we start seeing predators, and prey, and things that almost certainly have a Krebs cycle that's spinning in exactly the opposite direction.
And if you read comments anywhere, even YouTube, especially Facebook or whatever, you see that there's like this whole new group of idiots out there. And I consider this to be like the Cambrian explosion of idiot species. We've never seen like-- oh, look, there's a guy that's an anti-vaxxer and a flat-earther.
It's a really deep lineage here. This is the history going all the way back to the Cambrian 500 million years ago. Here's our old buddy with the very first little chambers in its shell, all the way through the really long straight shelled ones.
sequel to A Chance event that happened uh several billion years ago and then here is another familiar feature you may have heard of the Cambrian explosion over a relatively short period of time a few million years relatively short by evolutionary
come along very recently but what a difference we've made I want to talk about the mccre explosion I mentioned the Cambrian explosion I want to talk about an even more dramatic explosion which I call the mccre explosion Paul mccre how many of you
So that's really a reference to a book that made a big impression on me when I was about 16 or something which was Stephen Jay Gould wrote a book called "Wonderful Life." And it was about the Burgess Shale and the Cambrian explosion. So the Cambrian explosion is a fairly abrupt appearance of animals in the fossil record.
is a bilaterally symmetrical organism, including ourselves and animals like octopuses. So the branchings occurred earlier, before what's known as the Cambrian Explosion. Then in the Cambrian , life changed dramatically.
and stopped. So that's the way bitcoin works. But it's open source, so it's created this sort of Cambrian explosion of innovation, which has led to new types of blockchains. So just to show of hands, who here has heard of Ethereum?
And so I sort of structure my thinking into five main buckets, as we think about human evolution from the beginning of life to today. What I call the Animal Age, or basically from the Cambrian explosion to the beginning the Paleolithic, pre-human essentially. We can learn a lot from other species and our common ancestry with other species about how to be healthy, whether it's food,
So that was what I was hanging that on really. But the interesting question that I was driving towards was, well, what we're really seeing in the Cambrian explosion, we're seeing animals with armor plating, and with claws, and with teeth.
And identity is antagonistic. But specifically, what's happened to the press is that, as you've had this sort of Cambrian explosion of media sources--
So teeth, eyes-- our eyes are remarkably similar, in design, to octopus eyes, for example. But obviously, the common ancestor of us and the octopus is-- you're going right back to the Cambrian explosion 540 million years ago.
According to the report, above the skeleton was a thick layer of slate rock that was unbroken. According to modern geological reports, the age of a formation at that location and depth is about 600 million years from the Cambrian Period.
the future. Secondly, Lewis Carroll said it and said it again. Good way to get something into memory. Third, he's playing to what we understand as human animals, more animals than human. By the way, your eye evolved over half a billion years since the Cambrian explosion. There was an argument that, a very good argument, that it was the eyes that drove these species explosion around 500 billion years ago when we only had 5 kinds of fuzzy worms underwater