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Evan Bernstein

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

You expect me to know when exactly the Ediacarian, you know... So the Ediacarian period was right before the Cambrian period.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

Ah, I see.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

Yes, yes, the Great Explosion.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

I understand that part.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

Yeah.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

Thank you.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

Okay, so these fossils from Canada, thought to be a failed pre-Cambrian offshoot.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

Okay, that's reasonable.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

I did follow you, though.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

It is complicated, but I did follow you.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

All right.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

Includes the oldest bilaterian animal.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

But according to this, also the evidence for sexual reproduction?

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

Maybe not.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

I mean, it only takes one of those two pieces to be incorrect.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

I mean, I don't know the answer.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

But from a sense, it has to qualify to be both of these things.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

If it does, maybe it doesn't qualify for both.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

I don't know.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

The second one, the early eukaryotes, 1.75 to 1.4 billion years ago, were free-swimming organisms living mostly near the surface of the ocean.