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Sara Pruss on the First Reef Builders

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Sara Pruss discusses archaeocyath sponges, the first multicellular reef builders, and their relationship to diversification during the Cambrian. The episode traces successive reef-building groups through the geological record and asks why reefs repeatedly emerge despite environmental disruption and extinction.

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archaeocyath spongesmulticellular reef buildersCambriangeological recordreef-building groupsenvironmental disruptionextinctionSara Pruss

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