Was Spriggina an Evolutionary Ancestor of Arthropods?

Allison C. Daley, arthropods, bilateral symmetry, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran Period, Evolution, fossil record, genetic evidence, Greg Edgecombe, Günter Bechly, Intelligent Design, Mark McMenamin, Marten Scheffer, neo-Darwinian mechanisms, paleontology, Precambrian fossil, Princeton University Press, Science Uprising, Simon Conway Morris, Spriggina, Stephen Meyer, Sven Jorgen Birket-Smith
For those wedded to an evolutionary interpretation of life’s history, the fossil and genetic evidence leave the origin of arthropods a major mystery.  Source
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Scientific Paper Reaffirms New Genes Required for Cambrian Explosion

arthropods, bilateral symmetry, bilaterians, body plans, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, ecological factors, eLife, Evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary biology, fossil record, genes, genetic information, Günter Bechly, Intelligent Design, Nature Communications, orthology, oxygenation, paleontology, Precambrian, Stephen Meyer
The notion that many genes would be required for the Cambrian explosion may seem unsurprising — what is surprising is that anyone would challenge the idea. Source
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