Labels:bulletin board | reckoner | sky OCR: Even if complexity S only drift away from constraining left wall, we might view trends in this direction as more predictable and characteristic of life's pathway as whole increments Of complexity accrued in a persistent and gradually accumulating manner through time But nothing about life's history is more peculiar with respect to this common (and false) respect expectation than the actual pattern of extended stability and rapid episodic movement as revealed by the fossil record Life remained almost exclusively unicellular for the first five sixths of its history from the first recorded fossils at 3.5 billion years to the first well documented multicellular animals less than 600 million years ago. (Some simple multicellular algae evolved more than billion years ago but these organisms belo ...
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