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PBMB: 寒武纪生物爆发或与宇宙起源有关

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寒武纪生命大爆发(Cambrian Explosion)被称为古生物学和地质学上的一大悬案，自达尔文以来就一直困扰着进化论等学术界。大约5亿4200万年前到5亿3000万年前，在地质学上被认为是寒武纪的开始时间，寒武纪地层在2000多万年时间内突然出现门类众多的无脊椎动物化石，而在早期更为古老的地层中，长期以来没有找到其明显的祖先化石的现象，被古生物学家称作"寒武纪生命大爆发"，简称"寒武爆发"。达尔文在其《物种起源》的著作中提到了这一事实，并大感迷惑。他认为这一事实会被用做反对其进化论的有力证据。但他同时解释到，寒武纪的动物的祖先一定是来自前寒武纪动物，是经过很长时间的进化过程产生的;寒武纪动物化石出现的"突然性"和前寒武纪动物化石的缺乏，是由于地质记录的不完全或是由于老地层淹没在海洋中的缘故。这就是至今仍被国际学术界列为"十大科学难题"之一的"寒武纪生命大爆发"。依照传统和经典的生物学理论，即达尔文生物进化认为，生物进化经历了从水生到陆地、从简单到复杂、从低级到高级的漫长的演变过程，这一过程是通过自然选择和遗传变异两个车轮的缓慢滚动逐渐实现的，目前，由来自澳大利亚，英国，中国（包括本人），日本，南非等十多个国家科学家共同撰写的大型综述（长达21页）向这一权威理论提出了挑战，我们认为寒武纪生物爆发与宇宙起源(彗星）有关，并提供了大量的证据，该研究支持宇宙胚种论（https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia）。论文发表在Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology上。

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We review the salient evidence consistent with or predicted by the Hoyle-Wickramasinghe (H-W) thesis of Cometary (Cosmic) Biology. Much of this physical and biological evidence is multifactorial. One particular focus are the recent studies which date the emergence of the complex retroviruses of vertebrate lines at or just before the Cambrian Explosion of ~500 Ma. Such viruses are known to be plausibly associated with major evolutionary genomic processes. We believe this coincidence is not fortuitous but is consistent with a key prediction of H-W theory whereby major extinction-diversification evolutionary boundaries coincide with virus-bearing cometary-bolide bombardment events. A second focus is the remarkable evolution of intelligent complexity (Cephalopods) culminating in the emergence of the Octopus. A third focus concerns the micro-organism fossil evidence contained within meteorites as well as the detection in the upper atmosphere of apparent incoming life-bearing particles from space. In our view the totality of the multifactorial data and critical analyses assembled by Fred Hoyle, Chandra Wickramasinghe and their many colleagues since the 1960s leads to a very plausible conclusion e life may have been seeded here on Earth by life-bearing comets as soon as conditions on Earth allowed it to flourish (about or just before 4.1 Billion years ago); and living organisms such as space-resistant and space-hardy bacteria, viruses, more complex eukaryotic cells, fertilised ova and seeds have been continuously delivered ever since to Earth so being one important driver of further terrestrial evolution which has resulted in considerable genetic diversity and which has led to the emergence of mankind.

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Cause of Cambrian Explosion - Terrestrial or Cosmic.pdf