For almost four billion years life had dawdled along without any detectable ambitions in the direction of complexity, and then suddenly, in the space of just five or ten million years, it had created all the basic body designs still in use today.
For nearly four billion years, life on Earth existed without any significant push toward complexity, evolving in a relatively simple manner. However, a remarkable shift occurred over a brief period of five to ten million years, during which life forms rapidly developed the fundamental body structures that continue to be the foundation of biological diversity today. This sudden burst of complexity marked a pivotal moment in the history of life.
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