Wonderful Life

The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

von Stephen Jay Gould

352 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.