Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Name: Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
ISBN: 9780393307009

Stephen Jay Gould [Gould, Stephen Jay]

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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.

Kategorien:

Biology and other natural sciences

Jahr:

1990

Verlag:

W. W. Norton & Company

Sprache:

english

ISBN 10:

039330700X

ISBN 13:

9780393307009