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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.
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Wonderful Life, Stephen Jay Gould
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- Released
- 1990
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- Title
- Wonderful Life
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Stephen Jay Gould
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Released
- 1990
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN10
- 0091742714
- ISBN13
- 9780091742713
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, History, Science & Math, Nature, Natural sciences, Biology, Science, Evolution, Nature Observation
- Original title
- Wonderful life
- Rating
- 4.15 out of 5
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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.