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Toxic Cambrian oceans

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Isotopic evidence from carbon and sulphur points to the spread of anoxia and toxic sulphide as the chief culprits in at least one of a series of crises for marine ecosystems during the nascent stages of early animal evolution. See Letter p.80

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  1. Graham Shields-Zhou is in the Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK. g.shields@ucl.ac.uk,

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