Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale And The Nature Of History

Author: Stephen Jay Gould

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ISBN : 9780393307009
Publisher : WW Norton & Co
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Weight (g) : 0.508
Publication date : 01 May 1991
Dimensions : 231mm X 160mm X 23mm
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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.

Awards

Winner of Rhone Poulenc General Prize for Science Books 1991.

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