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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Wonderful Life The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
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 ...  more »
ISBN: 364535
Publication Date: 1989
Pages: 323
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Publisher: W.W. Norton
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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A great vbook for people into Really old Paleontalogy. This one is on the creatures of the mid Cambian period. Also Gould does a as usual, fine job on covering the background and how of Science in general. The Psychology that sends researches astray as well as the pesistence and testing that makes it work. Recomend this for Science buffs. Not a hard read though.
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