Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Earth Sciences, Palaeontology
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Author: Stephen Jay Gould ISBN: 9780393245202
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Publication: September 17, 1990
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company Language: English
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
ISBN: 9780393245202
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication: September 17, 1990
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English

"[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 Review

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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"[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 Review

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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