Ann Jones
speaker
552 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Ann Jones’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But these very first animals, the rangiomorphs, only seem to last for a little while, evolutionary speaking, because something is coming.
No pun intended.
But it was an explosion.
Sounds important.
It's like spring blossom season on the tree of life.
Little twigs are appearing all over the shop, flowering with eyes and gills.
There's trilobites, shrimpy things, eely things, skeletons, proboscises, and even newfangled things like predators.
It's what I can only call evolution's ejaculation.
Marisa Betts is a geologist and paleontologist.
So perhaps along with all these innovations, we get the latest in lovemaking technology brought to you by the Cambrian explosion.
OK, new organisms, but same old, same old reproductive strategy.
Wow.
And I do sound impressed because this is a key moment in the history of reproduction.
Let me explain.
The internal eggs could mark a potential split between strategies to have babies.
On one hand, you have lots of babies, but you don't worry about them at all.
It's a numbers game.
Maybe some of them will make it.
Biologists call this an R strategy.
On the other hand, there are K strategists.
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