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Wonderful Life
The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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Basing his argument around the history of science's treatment of the fossils of the Burgess shale, the author presents a view of evolution as a non-progressive system, which saw a wide range of early designs for life winnowed down to the relatively few basic designs that exist today.
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Wonderful Life, Stephen Jay Gould
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- 1991
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- Title
- Wonderful Life
- Subtitle
- The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Stephen Jay Gould
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 1991
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0140133801
- ISBN13
- 9780140133806
- Series
- Original title
- Wonderful life
- Rating
- 4.15 out of 5
- Description
- Basing his argument around the history of science's treatment of the fossils of the Burgess shale, the author presents a view of evolution as a non-progressive system, which saw a wide range of early designs for life winnowed down to the relatively few basic designs that exist today.