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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Hardcover

EvolutionPaleontology

ISBN10: 0393027058
ISBN13: 9780393027051
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Sep 1 1990
Pages: 350
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.18 Width: 6.45 Depth: 9.55
Language: English
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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