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Origin and Early Evolution of the Metazoa pp 87–129Cite as

Vendian Faunas and the Early Evolution of Metazoa

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Until recently, paleontological data were almost completely ignored by zoologists studying the origin of major groups of invertebrates and the early phylogeny of the Metazoa, chiefly because Charles Lyell had long ago emphasized the incompleteness of the geological and paleontological record. Charles Darwin adopted the same view and discussed the absence of ancestors of the Cambrian fauna. Only in the last few decades has paleontological information become available that bears on this problem, yet it, too, has been ignored in favor of new methods in the studies of living systems, in particular, from such fields as histology, genetics, biochemistry, and molecular biology. Along with the classical approaches, i.e., comparative anatomy and embryology, neontology dominated the study, not only of the systematics of Recent organisms, but also of the origin and phylogeny of Metazoa.

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Fedonkin, M.A. (1992). Vendian Faunas and the Early Evolution of Metazoa. In: Lipps, J.H., Signor, P.W. (eds) Origin and Early Evolution of the Metazoa. Topics in Geobiology, vol 10. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2427-8_4

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