Lecture: Fossilized embryos from the dawn of animal evolution
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Members: Free
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Date and Time
19:30 -
Location
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, 16-18 Queen Square, Bath BA1 2HN
Lecture Description
The fossil record had been thought to provide no evidence of embryonic development in early animals. However, over the past decade or so a series of exceptionally preserved animal embryos from Cambrian and Ediacaran rocks have been described. These provide our first direct evidence of embryology at the dawn of animal evolution.