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Charles Doolittle Walcott
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Charles Doolittle Walcott

American paleontologist
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  • Lipalian interval

    paleontologist Charles D. Walcott, who suggested that living forms rapidly evolved during the time between the deposition of the youngest Precambrian and the oldest Cambrian sediments and that no record of this interval, the Lipalian interval, exists because the rocks have been eroded or remain undiscovered.…

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    paleontologist Charles D. Walcott, who suggested that living forms rapidly evolved during the time between the deposition of the youngest Precambrian and the oldest Cambrian sediments and that no record of this interval, the Lipalian interval, exists because the rocks have been eroded or remain undiscovered.…

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