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Wonderful life: the Burgess Shale and the nature of history
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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 detail. In this book Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burgess Shale tells us about evolution and the nature of history.
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- Venue
- Choice Reviews Online
- Publisher
- American Library Association
- Published
- 1990-03-01
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 07
- Pages
- 27-3873-27-3873
- ISSN
- 0009-4978 (ISSN-L)
- 1523-8253
- OpenAlex
- W1675572849
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- book review
- Language
- en
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- closed
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