Thinking Outside the Fossil Record: Explanations for the Cambrian Explosion of Animals (2008)

Date and Time

April 29, 2008
06:00PM - 07:00PM EDT

Lecture by Charles Marshall

Charles Marshall, Professor of Biology and Geology at Harvard, and Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, discussed the causes and unique history of the Cambrian "explosion," a flash of evolution 540 million years ago when the diversity of animal life proliferated.