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Wonderful Life

Wonderful Life The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Paperback (29 May 1991)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780393307009
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Imprint: W.W. Norton and Company
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Language: English
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 490g
Height: 34mm
Width: 54mm
Spine width: 23mm