Wonderful Life

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

The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Stephen Jay Gould

1990·352 pages·Nonfiction

History & Politics Science & Mind

Pulitzer Prize (1990) · Nominee

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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