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.

Author: Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 09/17/1990
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.16w x 0.93d
ISBN: 9780393307009

About the Author
Gould, Stephen Jay: - Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology at Harvard University. He published over twenty books, received the National Book and National Book Critics Circle Awards, and a MacArthur Fellowship.