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Wonderful life : the Burgess Shale and the nature of history

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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 : the Burgess Shale and the nature of history, Stephen Jay Gould

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1989
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English
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Released
1989
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Paperback
Pages
352
ISBN10
039330700x
ISBN13
9780393307009
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Wonderful life
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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.