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    Glad you mentioned the Cambrian explosion Colin. To me what happened in the murky world of the early invertebrates is so much more fascinating than that of the much more glamorous dinosaurs.

    I assume you've read Stephen J Gould's treatise on the mid-Cambrian Burgess Shale fauna "Wonderful Life"? If not, I can highly recommend it - it was one of those, literally, life changing books I read as it opened a whole world of evolutionary theory in an area that was utterly unfamiliar to me. If you go for it, you must follow up with Simon Conway Morris's reply "The Crucible of Creation" a it tempers many of Gould's more outlandish theories.

    If neither appeal, go for Richard Fortey's "Trilobite". A wonderful popularist book, it'll make you want to hunting for prehistoric marine woodlouse tomorrow.

    (I have a fossil of an Anomalocaris 'puke' if anyone wants to see it.)

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