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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Book Title
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
ISBN
0091742714
EAN
9780091742713
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Hardback
Date of Publication
1990-02-01
Release Title
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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Gould, Stephen Jay
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Publication Year
1990
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Name
Wonderful Life: Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Item Height
234 mm
Author
Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher
Century Hutchinson (A Division of Random House Group)
Subject
Geology, Science, Biology
Item Weight
893 g
Item Width
156 mm
Number of Pages
352 Pages

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An account of a revolution in our understanding of life's history, this book tells how three obscure British scientists completely changed our view of evolution by discovering a unique group of 530 million year-old creatures in the Burgess Shale fossil deposit in the Rockies.

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352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Wonderful Life: Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Publication Year
1990
Subject
Geology, Science, Biology
Type
Textbook
Author
Stephen Jay Gould
Format
Hardcover

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234 mm
Item Weight
893 g
Item Width
156 mm

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United Kingdom
Title_Author
Stephen Jay Gould

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  • A MUST for anyone interested in the Burgess Shales, paeleontology or evoulution in general.

    I have always been interested in fossils and the Burgess Shales fascinate me. I had already bought books on the fossils themselves, but this book is invaluable to anyone trying to understand just why these creatures were as weird as they were. It describes in a very readable manner the incredible story of our interpretation and mis-interpretation of the fossils and presents a completely different version of the theory of evoulution, turning on it's head the trope of from the few to the many and making a sensible and logical pitch for from the many to the few. the book also puts forward the argument that Survival of the fittest might not be as simple as we had thought. Evoulution it argues might have easily taken a completely different route. It was not only the specialist 'niche' ...

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned

  • Good read but factually rather out of date

    A very interesting and entertaining take on the Cambrian explosion of life but need to be read in conjunction with far more recent publications on this topic.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: baham_books

  • Rewards careful study.

    Explains a scholarly subject in lay terms.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: opp0siteland

  • Interesting book

    Interesting look at the first lfe on earth.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: brit_books_xp