A speeding clock could solve Darwin’s mystery of gaps in animal fossil records

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Accelerated evolution in young species may explain the difference between fossils and molecular evidence

Possibly helpful for plant fossil timing also

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The new idea is that the moment that any big group of organisms first appears, evolution speeds up.

Is that to say complexity breeds more complexity?

I would rather describe it as polyphony breeds more diversification.

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Chuck Testa?

NOPE!