Past couple years I've noticed and watched a number of Jackson Wheat's videos and have consistently been impressed. Now it turns out that he's provided the best introduction to the Cambrian Period for my purposes.
He overcame my preference for highlighting genuine scientists in this series because he does such a nice job of confronting the ID challenge up front. I didn't find much bio except that he looks to be a surprisingly young guy. The man holds a lot of promise, I wish him well. He also shows us what descriptions should look like, loaded with reference to sources. Below the fold I share a series of key screen shots, followed by Wheat's detailed list of sources with links.
If I had more time, I'd love to do a little more commentary on his content since the two videos certainly have plenty worth discussing, but other matters are crowding me and I need to keep this going. He does toss in a short loud introduction loop, but after that it's smooth sailing as Jackson succinctly summarizes the Cambrian "Explosion" - enjoy.
Jackson Wheat - Cambrian #1 - July 5, 2019
An explanation of the Cambrian explosion. All pictures are from Google.
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“Coevolution of roots and mycorrhizas of land plants”: https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/d...
“Transition of Plants to Land”: https://web.archive.org/web/200803020...
“A special issue of Phytotaxa dedicated to Bryophytes: The closest living relatives of early land plants”: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
“Complete plastome sequences of Equisetum arvense and Isoetes flaccida: implications for phylogeny and plastid genome evolution of early land plant lineages”: https://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com...
“Bryophyte diversity and evolution: Windows into the early evolution of land plants”: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a...
“Late Precambrian and Early Cambrian Metazoa: Preservational or Real Extinctions?”: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10....
“Charnia and Sea Pens are poles apart”: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
“Fractal branching organizations of Ediacaran rangeomorph fronds reveal a lost Proterozoic body plan”: http://www.pnas.org/content/111/36/13122
“Possible animal-body fossils in pre-Marinoan limestones from South Australia”: https://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo934
“The Avalon Explosion: Evolution of Ediacara Morphospace”: http://science.sciencemag.org/content...
“Common Ancestry Pt. 4”: https://youtu.be/77IMwlMa1IY
“Neoproterozoic glaciation in the Earth System”: http://earthscience.ucr.edu/gcec_page...
“Pannotia”: https://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.p...
“Ancestral state reconstruction of ontogeny supports a bilaterian affinity for Dickinsonia”: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a...
“Treptichnus pedum: An Ichnofossil Representing Ediacaran - Cambrian Boundary in the Nagaur Group, the Marwar Supergroup, Rajasthan, India”: http://www.insa.nic.in/writereaddata/...
“Priapulid worms: Pioneer horizontal burrowers at the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary”: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/...
“A Large and Consistent Phylogenomic Dataset Supports Sponges as the Sister Group to All Other Animals”: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/...
“Introduction to Placozoa”: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/phyla/pl...
“The Cambrian conundrum: early divergence and later ecological success in the early history of animals”: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...
“Dating early animal evolution using phylogenomic data”: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...
“The ParaHox gene cluster is an evolutionary sister of the Hox gene cluster”: https://www.nature.com/articles/31933
“Borings in Cloudina Shells: Complex Predator-Prey Dynamics in the Terminal Neoproterozoic.”: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1669...
"Late Ediacaran trackways produced by bilaterian animals with paired appendages": http://advances.sciencemag.org/conten...
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The Cambrian Explosion Pt. 2
Jackson Wheat - June 13, 2018
An explanation of the Cambrian explosion. All pictures are from Google.
“What Sparked the Cambrian Explosion?”: https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...
“Oxygen, animals and oceanic ventilation: an alternative view”: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a...
“Oxygen, ecology, and the Cambrian radiation of animals”: http://www.pnas.org/content/110/33/13446
“Oxygen and predators and Cambrian awesomeness (with worms!)”: https://cambrianmammal.wordpress.com/...
“Self-Recognition and Ca2+-Dependent Carbohydrate–Carbohydrate Cell Adhesion Provide Clues to the Cambrian Explosion”: https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
“Biotic replacement and mass extinction of the Ediacara biota”: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.or...
“The origin of the animals and a ‘Savannah’ hypothesis for early bilaterian evolution”: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f...
“The Tommotian Fauna - the small shelly animals”: http://www.fossilmuseum.net/Paleobiol...
“Kimberella”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberella
“Wiwaxia”: http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/s...
“Orthrozanclus”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthroz...
“Ottoia”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoia
“Tardigrada (water bears, tardigrades)”: http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/m...
“Hallucigenia”: http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/s...
“Diania”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diania
“Opabinia”: http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/s...
“Anomalocaris”: http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/s...
“Cambrian bivalved arthropod reveals origin of arthrodization”: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
“Scorpion Evolution”: https://youtu.be/ZOwAQ_w-Lwg
“Early Cambrian fuxianhuiids from China reveal origin of the gnathobasic protopodite in euarthropods”: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146...
“Arthropod fossil data increase congruence of morphological and molecular phylogenies”: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomm...
“10 Terrific Facts About Trilobites”: http://mentalfloss.com/article/68881/...
“Meiofaunal deuterostomes from the basal Cambrian of Shaanxi (China)”: https://www.nature.com/articles/natur...
“Common Ancestry Pt. 3”: https://youtu.be/Qvz_uQSzpdo
“Vetulocystidae”: http://palaeos.com/metazoa/deuterosto...
“A new vetulicolian from Australia and its bearing on the chordate affinities of an enigmatic Cambrian group”: https://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com...
Wonderful Life: https://www.amazon.com/Wonderful-Life...
“Pikaia gracilens Walcott, a stem-group chordate from the Middle Cambrian of British Columbia”: http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/main/me...
“New Early Cambrian Chordates from Haikou, Kunming”: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a...
“The Ordovician Radiation: A Follow-up to the Cambrian Explosion?”: https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/...
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Keep up the good work
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