Terrestrial Invasion
I think that many people, including evolutionary biologists, seem to think that various plants and animals just came out of the water on to the land and started living there. This short graphic of evolution is an example (from Evolution: Great Transformations)
But how?
Many evolutionists talk about 'the invasion of land' or 'terrestrialisation, The time of this runs exactly in parallel to 'my theory' of soil evolution. Their version implies that the plants and creatures dropped on the land, which was rocks or sludge and then developed. What I show is that in order to develop, the soil was created and colonised by organisms and from that all further evolution came from that. ie evolution came through the soil. This gave rise to the colonisation of air - probably over the next 100 mya. See page on Evolution of Insects for more details
These that talk of land invasion, say that 'ability to withstand dryness' is an important character for any creature wanting to terrestrialise. Yes of course. They also say that these creatures have to have developed 'trachea' in order to breath air. Yes of course. They do that in the soil where conditions are a bit more protective, to help survival.
And it seems that the other important characteristic was fertilisation - via spores. For this conditions would have to remain pretty damp and dark.All these aspects of conquering the land can also be seen as creating the soil.
Will do..
the early hexapods..collembola,
worms
and enchytreidae?
isopods
crustaceans?
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