Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- W. W. Norton
- Year
- 2014
- ISBN-13
- 9780393245202
- Genre
- Science & Technology
- Topics
- Evolutionary biologyPaleontologyBurgess Shale fossils
Awards
- Royal Society Science Book PrizeWon(1991)
- Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1990)
Other awarded books from Stephen Jay Gould
- The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections on Natural History
- Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle
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