Stephen Jay Gould

Wonderful Life

The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History. HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 350 Seiten
ISBN 0393027058
EAN 9780393027051
Veröffentlicht September 1990
Verlag/Hersteller W. W. Norton & Company
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Beschreibung

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.

Portrait

Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology at Harvard University. He published over twenty books, received the National Book and National Book Critics Circle Awards, and a MacArthur Fellowship.

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