Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Stephen Jay Gould

352 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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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 deta...

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