Wonderful Life
Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
$37.86
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
31 August 2000
Summary
A controversial enquiry into the fundamental principles of evolutionary theory from an award-winning writer.
High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago. Called the Burgess Shale, it holds the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived - a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in incredible detail. In this book Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burgess Shale might tell us about evolution and the nature of history.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099273455 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099273454 |
| Author: | Stephen Jay Gould |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 31 August 2000 |
| Weight: | 246g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 21mm |
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Critics Review
A masterpiece of analysis and imagination…It centres on a sensational discovery in the field of palaeontology - the existence, in the Burgess Shale… of 530-million-year-old fossils unique in age, preservation and diversity…With skill and passion, Gould takes this mute collection of fossils and makes them speak to us. The result challenges some of our most cherished self-perceptions and urges a fundamental re-assessment of our place in the history of life on earth * Sunday Times *
About The Author
Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology at Harvard University and the curator for invertebrate palaeontology in the University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. He is the author of over twenty books, and received the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the MacArthur Fellowship. He died in May 2002.
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