Anthropomorphizing nature!
That's pseudo-science to the extreme.

You are right. We dont have any fossils from the Cambrian era. None, zilch, zero. The entire period is a complete mystery that scientist only guessed happened because it makes evolution look neat.

Yeah I had absolutely no idea. Thanks. Here's a quote from that wiki page for you.

"Vertebrates originated about 525 million years ago during the Cambrian explosion, which saw the rise in organism diversity."

So the question still remains.

No one is anthropomorphizing nature. You just dont understand the term "nature selects" implies or are being purposefully dense. When I refer to nature I am simply talking about the species surrounding (the enviroment) in which it lives. If food is scarce...that is a pressure that organisms will have to cope with. The ones that can will be able to pass on their genes. What is so hard to understand about that?

Your acting like I said that Nature calls the animal and is like "yo, you need better ears so that you can hear that thing sneaking up on you better". When I say nature dictates evolution im talking about Weather, Climate, terrain, other species in the same vicinity, sometimes even different types of the same species can cause the other type to evolve(Darwin's Finchs on the Galopagos islands).

It also talks about the earliest known vertebrates and give you names for them. If you want an answer I am not going to hold you hand through the entire process. We have search engines like google that anyone, including yourself, can use. Quite demanding that I know every single fact...I am not a biologist. If you want deeper explanations all you have to do is look.

So Nature is the external force that drives evolution.

All those starving children in Africa will make a very fit species in a million years.

Government and Religion. Both people trying to tell you how to run your life and get money from you at the same time. They came up with religion so people would be fearful of doing bad things in this life and be punished for it in the "afterlife".

This thread isn't for rational thoughts.
SCRAM! You little cockroach.