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Wonderful Life: Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould (Hardcover, 1990)
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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherCentury Hutchinson (A Division of Random House Group)
ISBN-139780091742713
eBay Product ID (ePID)89988486
Product Key Features
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameWonderful Life: Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Publication Year1990
SubjectGeology, Science, Biology
TypeTextbook
AuthorStephen Jay Gould
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height234 mm
Item Weight893 g
Item Width156 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorStephen Jay Gould
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- 08 Aug, 2019
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' animals like 'hallucinogenia' or 'anomalocaris' that became evoulutionary 'dead ends' but also some of the non specialized species that 'should' have survived but didn't. Overall this is anything but a dry treatment of paeleontology, but interesting, thought provoking and a little bit scary. . . .Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 02 Aug, 2017
Good read but factually rather out of date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-owned
- 12 Oct, 2022
Rewards careful study.
Explains a scholarly subject in lay terms.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 20 Oct, 2024
Interesting book
Interesting look at the first lfe on earth.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
