Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
- ISBN-10
- 039330700X
- ISBN-13
- 9780393307009
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 347
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990-09-17
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- Stephen Jay Gould
Description
A study of the Burgess Shale, a sea bed 530 million years old, and attempts to tackle what the findings are and what it means
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