The still life has its special value and its special value lies in the fact that although it describes static objects, the emotion reflected is fluid.

The author,through a thorough analytic research of still-life oil painting development,maintains that instead of merely a means for basic skills training,still-life oil painting should be laid more emphasis on its conveyance of the humanistic features,the aesthetic insight into the object,thus fully embodying the artistic reflections the painter had on the life.

The fossil record of late Precambrian (especially Sinian) animals (probable orcredible) is listed, making an attempt to illuminate some principal aspects of early animalevolution such as achievements, hopeful clues, and main problems, and presaging that we shallget break-through development in the near future.