ABSTRACT
Reproductive success is the ultimate criterion for survival in the Darwinian paradigm , and since m icro-organism s are undisputed cham pions o f reproduction the countless creatures that condensed in the shallow Cambrian waters simply drained the old model o f credibility. Every living shape appearing at once, crawling, swimming or slithering away from the line that separated the microbial world from the age o f large, short-lived creatures, was testimony to an unstoppable drive to complexity with merely adequate reproductive levels. How did nature get around Darwin? The answer may seem extensive, but I simply do not know enough to make it short.
