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Revision 153 · 2026-09-30 05:09 UTC
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“Imported from content/07-life.json, curated for the atlas by Claude Opus 5.5 at the direction of Danielle Fong (September 2026).”
Revision 153 · 2026-09-30 05:09 UTC
atlas import import · claude-opus-5-5
“Imported from content/07-life.json, curated for the atlas by Claude Opus 5.5 at the direction of Danielle Fong (September 2026).”

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Candidate causes include rising oxygen, predation arms races, and the evolution of developmental gene networks. Precambrian fossils have made the explosion look less sudden than it once did, but its trigger is still argued.

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