%0 Journal Article
%T An Evolutionary Model for the Neoproterozoic (Ediacaran)-Phanerozoic Biosphere. Part One: Concepts and Exploitation of Aquatic Environments
%A Andrian Vasilievich Popov
%A Galina Petrovna Nestell
%A Merlynd Keith Nestell
%A Walter Leroy Manger
%J Open Journal of Geology
%P 1386-1403
%@ 2161-7589
%D 2017
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ojg.2017.79092
%X The evolutionary history of the biosphere is characterized by aromorphosis: biological evolution by a general increase in the degree of organization without developing high degrees of specialization [<a href=\"#ref1\">1</a>]. Four major stages of the evolutionary transformation of life (mega-aromorphoses) can be established in the recorded succession of the Neoproterozoic (Ediacaran)-Phanerozoic aromorphoses reflecting changes of the dominant groups. They are defined by the appearance of archetypes ensuring the possibilities of a prolonged and diverse rise of the level of their organization leading to significant increase in the activity of living organisms and their emerging independence from the environment. A successive series of developmental stages exploiting of the aquatic environment of the Neoproterozoic (Ediacaran)-Phanerozoic biosphere can be established based on their dominant groups: the biospheres of protozoans, proto-metazoans, protobilaterals, fishes and amphibians.
%K Biosphere
%K Super-Aromorphoses
%K Mega-Aromorphoses
%K Archetype
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=79169