Chapter 3: The Big Bang of Species in Small Worlds

Luo Xiaojiang thought of the magical little world he got this morning, and quickly associated the two things together.

Perhaps it is under the influence of some magical energy in that world that I have the ability to know what other people are thinking, which is the so-called mind reading.

On the way home, it was just the time for everyone to rest after work at noon.

Along the way, men and women kept passing by him, and all kinds of voices filled his mind.

[I'm going to submit the form again next week, but I still have so much work to do this week.] Alas, it's so tiring to go to work!]

[Why is the price of what I bought yesterday reduced today? Unscrupulous profiteers are really hateful!]

[Did the boss get angry with me today? I knew that I shouldn't have made a small report so confidently. 】

[The weather is so nice today, you can go to play basketball in the afternoon!]

【......】

Countless voices echoed in Luo Xiaojiang's mind, and he even felt that his head was about to explode, and he covered his ears and ran wildly.

Finally, Luo Xiaojiang broke away from the crowd and ran to a "deserted" place, and he felt that his brain was completely clean.

"Well, it's a mind-reading technique, and I can tell what he's thinking without anyone talking. However, this ability should have a distance limit, and it will generally fail if it exceeds three meters. ”

"It's a good ability, but if it's in a crowd, it's suicide. I hope there is a way to make this ability free to retract, otherwise it will definitely be a big trouble in the future. ”

All the way down the alley to home, after hurriedly solving lunch, Luo Xiaojiang couldn't wait to open his "experimental base".

After just over an hour of walking, the place had changed dramatically, and an unknown number of creatures had been born.

Among them, the largest number are shelled, skeletal marine invertebrates that live on the ocean floor and feed on tiny seaweed and organic matter particles.

Others have successfully adapted to the terrestrial environment and settled on the land.

There are also some strange-looking large marine animals, which are often extremely weird in shape, and Luo Xiaojiang doesn't know how to describe them in words.

And, most crucially, these species are unable to find a similar species from the evolutionary history of the Earth!

It shows that even in an environment similar to that of the earth, the direction of evolution in this world is almost completely different!

This reminded Luo Xiaojiang of a famous sentence that I don't know which great writer said it.

Every life is uniquely given by God.

This is true not only of life, but of every species. The same environment, almost the same starting point, may be a little different, embarking on two completely different evolutionary paths.

But how did these creatures evolve?

At present, there is no truly accurate answer to this question on the whole earth.

However, one thing is certain. That is, this small world must have experienced the Big Bang, otherwise it would not have been possible for so many species to pop up all of a sudden.

The Big Bang of Species, also known as the Big Bang of Life. Generally refers to the phenomenon of rapid differentiation of many different species in a relatively short period of time.

The Earth also experienced the Big Bang of life, about 600 million years ago, at the beginning of the Cambrian period, when the vast majority of invertebrates appeared in a very short period of millions of years.

This is known as the Cambrian Big Bang and is a major mystery in paleontology and geology.

This question has puzzled academia such as evolution since Darwin. Darwin mentions this fact in his work On the Origin of Species and was greatly puzzled.

He believed that this fact would be used as strong evidence against his theory of evolution.

However, he also explained that Cambrian animals must have been from the ancestors of Precambrian animals and were produced over a long period of evolution, and that the "suddenness" of Cambrian animal fossils and the lack of Precambrian animal fossils were due to the incomplete geological record or the submergence of old strata in the ocean.

Whether or not the animals of the Cambrian period of the Earth took a long time to form, no one can really know so far.

But Luo Xiaojiang's first big bang of life in this world, he himself can be sure.

The formation of these animals did not go through hundreds of thousands of years, nor tens of thousands of years, but only a few hundred years!

From the birth of the first marine animal to the current population of tens of thousands, about an hour has passed in the outside world, which is equivalent to the past 400 years in this world.

In more than 400 years, tens of thousands of species have been born. This speed can be described as terrifying.

This world is bigger than the earth!

"It's just...... I wonder if I can overturn Darwin's theory of evolution through the birth of my world species?" Luo Xiaojiang seemed to have a terrible idea.

According to Darwin, the evolution of species is the result of the accumulation of random variation through natural selection, and this change is gradual and continuous, so that there must be a large number of intermediate transitional species.

And in my own world, the evolution of species is obviously not gradual, but by leaps and bounds!

Coincidentally, there are many modern examples that can be used to refute evolution.

For example, most people currently believe that birds evolved from dinosaurs, and since evolution is continuous, there must be countless species between dinosaurs and birds in the long process of evolution, and there should be many such creatures that are very common, but in fact there are none.

However, this evidence alone does not seem to be enough to completely disprove the theory of evolution.

However, he has the ability that all paleontological researchers do not have.

That is, you can see the whole birth process of a new species in its entirety, and it is a new species that has changed dramatically, not just a new species that is only biologically isolated from reproduction!

With this ability, all research will be easy, simple, and error-free.

What paleontologist would dare to say that his conclusions from fossils are more accurate than those that others have seen along the way?

And no matter whether the conclusion of one's last observation is to disprove or prove the theory of evolution, it can cause a world-class sensation!

"Forget it, the more I think about it, the more unreliable it becomes. I haven't completely figured out what functions this world has, so why do you want to do those things in a few decades?" Luo Xiaojiang shook his head, "It's better to think through the ability of mind reading first, after all, it's impossible not to go to crowded places in the future!"