All of the following have been suggested as triggers for the Cambrian radiation of complex metazoans except: perhaps the Cambrian metazoans outcompeted the Ediacaran metazoans, opening up new ecological niches to fill perhaps a series of fortuitsus genetic changes provided more raw material for natural selection to act upon perhaps increased oxygen in the world ocean promoted the evolution of compiex body forms perhaps the rise in sea level that flooded the margins of the continents during the earliest Paleozoic created abundant new ecological niches, promoting biodiversity perhaps the "arms race" between predator and prey spurred evolutionary innovation

All of the following have been suggested as triggers for the Cambrian radiation of complex metazoans except: perhaps the Cambrian metazoans outcompeted the Ediacaran metazoans, opening up new ecological niches to fill perhaps a series of fortuitsus genetic changes provided more raw material for natural selection to act upon perhaps increased oxygen in the world ocean promoted the evolution of compiex body forms perhaps the rise in sea level that flooded the margins of the continents during the earliest Paleozoic created abundant new ecological niches, promoting biodiversity perhaps the "arms race" between predator and prey spurred evolutionary innovation

Biology Today and Tomorrow without Physiology (MindTap Course List)

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Chapter11: Evidence Of Evolution

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