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Wonderful Life:

The Burgess Shale & the Nature of History
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W W Norton & Company Incorporated, 1990 - Science - 347 pages
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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Review: Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale And The Nature Of History

User Review  - Aurelien - Goodreads

The Burgess Shale's creatures, with their anatomies as striking as bizarre are a perfect illustration of the history of life on Earth: just a matter of contingency. We are, but we could never have ... Read full review

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User Review  - Jon Lindsay Miles - Goodreads

It's a wonderful life, and a wonderful story. But Gould's narrative voice keeps getting in the way of it. He insults by telling the reader what he's about to read (a severe failing also common on ... Read full review

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About the author (1990)

Born in New York City in 1941, Stephen Jay Gould received his B.A. from Antioch College in New York in 1963. He received a Ph.D. in paleontology from Columbia University in 1967 and has been a professor at Harvard University since then. He is also curator of invertebrate paleontology at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. His research has been mainly in the evolution and speciation of land snails. Gould is a leading proponent of the theory of punctuated equilibrium. This theory holds that few evolutionary changes occur among organisms over long periods of time, and then a brief period of rapid changes occurs before another long, stable period of equilibrium sets in. An outspoken advocate of the scientific outlook, Gould has been a vigorous defender of evolution against its creation-science opponents in popular magazines focusing on science. He writes a column for Natural History and has produced a remarkable series of books that display the excitement of science for the layperson.

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TitleWonderful Life: The Burgess Shale & the Nature of History
A Norton paperback
AuthorStephen J. Gould
Editionillustrated
PublisherW W Norton & Company Incorporated, 1990
ISBN039330700X, 9780393307009
Length347 pages
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Fiction / General
Science / Life Sciences / Evolution
Science / Paleontology
  
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