Sentences with phrase «apparently sudden appearance»

To illustrate the fossil problem, here is what a particularly vigorous advocate of Darwinism, Oxford Zoology Professor (and popular author) Richard Dawkins, says in The Blind Watchmaker about the «Cambrian explosion,» i.e., the apparently sudden appearance of the major animal forms at the beginning of the Cambrian era:

«The case most frequently insisted on by paleontologists of the apparently sudden appearance of a whole group of species, is that of the teleostean fishes, low down in the Chalk period.»