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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

By Stephen Jay Gould

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Year
1990
ISBN
039330700X, 9780393307009
Open Library ID
OL7452856M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
9 MB (8913737 bytes)
Pages
342\342
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

"[An] extraordinary book. . . . Mr. Gould is an exceptional combination of scientist and science writer. . . . He is thus exceptionally well placed to tell these stories, and he tells them with fervor and intelligence."—James Gleick, New York Times Book ReviewHigh in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived—a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail. In this book Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burgess Shale tells us about evolution and the nature of history.

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