Decoding the Ediacaran Enigma

Both fossils and Egyptian hieroglyphs consist of arcane geometries, glyphs in rock that conceal deeper meanings from the rude inquirer, and are capable of false translation. The recent discovery of the remarkable well-preserved Ediacaran fossils in Newfoundland raises the question of whether the stu...

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Published in:Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 2004-08, Vol.305 (5687), p.1115-1117
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Architecture
Biographies
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Fossils
Identification and classification
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Ontogeny
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Perspectives
Precambrian strata
Taxa
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