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4.g. Significant developments in animal life.

Earth and Life History (Earth Sciences)
4. Evidence from rocks allows us to understand the evolution of life on Earth. As a basis for understanding this concept:
g. Students know how to explain significant developments and extinctions of plant and animal life on the geologic time scale.

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Bill Shear, Biologist: How Arthropods Left the Sea

Ian Lawn, Neurobiologist: Anemone Nervous System

James Hagadorn, Paleontologist: Traces of Early Animal Life

Des Collins, Paleontologist: The Burgess Shale

Cambrian Explosion

Jenny Clack, Paleontologist: The First Vertebrate Walks on Land

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