Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Name: Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: The Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen Jay Gould
ISBN: 9780393307009

The Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen Jay Gould

29/05/1991
W. W. Norton & Company

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Couverture de Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History par The Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen Jay Gould

Résumé

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.