

  • n. Plural of phylum.

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  • n. Plural form of phylum.
  • n. Plural form of phylon.

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  • n. Plural of phylum.


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  • But Darwin knew that the major animal groups-which modern biologists call "phyla" - appeared fully formed in what were at the time the earliest known fossil-bearing rocks, deposited during a geological period known as the Cambrian.

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  • Neo-Darwinism and front-loaded hypotheses expect the opposite pattern, a ‘bottom-up’ pattern in which small differences in form accumulate first differentiating species and genera from each other and then only much later building to the large-scale differences in form that differentiate higher taxonomic categories such as phyla and classes.

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  • Meyer asserts that the Cambrian explosion represented an actual sudden origin of higher taxa; that these taxa such as phyla are “real” and not an artifact of human retrospective classification; and that morphological disparity coincides with phyletic categories.

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  • It is Meyer's opinion (as mentioned in other articles) that the "Cambrian Explosion" is the time when "40 separate major groups of organisms or" phyla "(including all the basic body plans of modern animals) emerged suddenly without clear precursors.".

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  • Even worse, Quammen ignores the Cambrian explosion, in which many of the major groups ( "phyla") of animals appeared in a geologically short time with no fossil evidence of common ancestry -- a fact that Darwin himself considered a "serious" problem that

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  • Also, X in the argument doesn’t stand for “Cambrian explosion” but…from comment 151399”X being the sudden appearance of many phyla, meaning many cell types, meaning much information”

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  • Whether Silas has concerned herself with conveying information about the easy and gentle death and decomposition of birds or in providing a reconciling note to the cultural amnesia prolonging the destructive effects of torture and genocide, Silas' descent in the order of relevant species and phyla in nature from humans to birds is but an effort to anchor the human life to the greater cycle generating and justifying the sanctity of all living things.

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  • It is the entropy that defines how we respond to every representation of death regardless of the species, genus, phyla of animals.


  • I might be mistaken, but I think the "toolkit" for development of the eye appears in most of the phyla.

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