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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History cover

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Stephen Jay Gould

2

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#191 of 3,809 books · #17 in Science & Technology

Won the Royal Society Science Book Prize (1991) and the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science (1990). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.

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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Publisher
Norton
ISBN-13
9780393245202
Topics
Evolutionary biologyPaleontologyBurgess Shale fossils

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