Wonderful Life : The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

The Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen Jay Gould
W. W. Norton & Company
9780393027051
0-393-02705-8

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.

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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.