Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

by Stephen Jay Gould

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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.

Book Details

ISBN13	9780393307009
ISBN10	039330700X
Series/Work	OL473533W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher	W. W. Norton & Company
Pages	352
Language	ENG
Created At	January 30, 2025
Updated At	January 30, 2025
Last OL update	January 18, 2025

Subjects

38.22 palaeozoology 560/.9 British Columbia Burgess-Schiefer Burgess, Schiste de (Canada) Burgess Shale Cambrian Geologic Period Contingence Contingence (Philosophie) Contingency (Philosophy) Evolución Evolutie Evolution Évolution Evolution (biologie) Évolution (biologie) Evolution, history Extinction (Biologie) Extinction (Biology) Fossielen

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