{"id":355,"date":"2011-12-23T16:04:44","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T16:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=355"},"modified":"2011-12-23T16:04:44","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T16:04:44","slug":"what-came-before-the-cambrian-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/12\/23\/what-came-before-the-cambrian-period\/","title":{"rendered":"What came before the Cambrian period?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Precambrian fossils, once thought to be embryos, reinterpreted as&#8230; something else<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/news\/2011\/12\/precambrian-fossils-once-thought-to-be-embryos-reinterpreted-as-somethign-else.ars\">http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/news\/2011\/12\/precambrian-fossils-once-thought-to-be-embryos-reinterpreted-as-somethign-else.ars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since the Cambrian period basically represents the first time organisms contained hard body parts (soft body parts very rarely fossilize), a lot less is known about the pre-Cambrian period.  What fossils they do find tend to be light on detail and difficult to interpret, so the article mentioned above isn&#8217;t that unusual.  Fortunately, this isn&#8217;t a politicized subject and academic investigators can be wrong without winding up being vilified on the front pages of magazines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Precambrian fossils, once thought to be embryos, reinterpreted as&#8230; something else http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/news\/2011\/12\/precambrian-fossils-once-thought-to-be-embryos-reinterpreted-as-somethign-else.ars Since the Cambrian period basically represents the first time organisms contained hard body parts (soft body parts very rarely fossilize), a lot less is known about the pre-Cambrian period. What fossils they do find tend to be light on detail and difficult to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/12\/23\/what-came-before-the-cambrian-period\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What came before the Cambrian period?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}