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SUMMARY:The Ediacaran: When Life Became Interesting - Dr Emily Mitchell
DTSTART:20131030T210000Z
DTEND:20131030T220000Z
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CONTACT:Graham Edgecombe
DESCRIPTION:Life on Earth has existed for 3.8 billion years\, but for most
  of that time life consisted only of small microbes. 542 million years ago
  the Cambrian "explosion" brought with it the ancestors of everything aliv
 e today. However\, before that came the Ediacaran - complex life that died
  completely after only 40 million years. Ediacaran fossils present many ch
 allenges for Palaeontology - they don't look like anything else and don't 
 appear to have any close living relatives. What did they eat? How did they
  reproduce? What caused them to appear after 3 billion years of microbes? 
 Why did they disappear? In this talk Dr Emily Mitchell will share what we 
 know about these enigmatic creatures.
LOCATION:Nihon Room\, Pembroke College
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