Joel Kontinen
According to
evolution, the Ediacaran Period, 635 to 539 million years ago, was marked by the rise of complex life on Earth.
Yang et
al. found that Ediacaran evolution was not slow and steady but rather marked
by intervals of rapid diversification interspersed with dramatic environmental
change.
The authors
present geochronologic data that better define the tempo of evolution and how
changes in that tempo relate to changes in the global carbon cycle as evidenced
by carbon isotopic measurements of carbonate rocks in the Ediacaran
stratigraphy.
Evolution
states that the process was cyclic: Specific assemblages of complex organisms
persisted stably for tens of millions of years in each cycle, after which new
assemblages arose over much shorter time intervals. Present data suggest that
these bursts of diversification may have been caused by rapid environmental
changes associated with changes in the carbon cycle.
Poor
evolutionists cannot discern the causes for these episodes of environmental
change. But the Genesis model can..
Source:
Hodges, Kip. 2021. Evolutionary Biology The variable tempo of early evolution. Science.
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