Book Cover Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

of Stephen Jay Gould

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High 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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Book Details

  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 352 pages
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publication Date September 17th 1990
  • First Publication 10/01/89
  • Language English
  • ISBN 9780393307009
  • Edition Not informed
  • Category Science & Technology
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