Bibliograph

Wonderful life, The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, Stephen Jay Gould

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Wonderful life, The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, Stephen Jay Gould

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Wonderful life

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Stephen Jay Gould

Sub title

The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Summary

"[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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