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  Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback) By (author) Stephen Jay Gould

  

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  Short Description for Wonderful Life"Luminous. . .Filled with profound and upsetting ideas like the Burgess Shale itself and just as solid. It is surely one of nature's best stories, told with a light touce by a master of the field".--Lewis Thomas, M.D.
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  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Published: 29 May 1991
  • Format: Paperback 348 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Evolution | Palaeontology
  • ISBN 13: 9780393307009 ISBN 10: 039330700X
  • Sales rank: 298,219

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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.