Stephen Jay Gould

Gebundenes Buch

Wonderful Life

The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 734g
• ISBN-13: 9780393027051
• ISBN-10: 0393027058
• Artikelnr.: 24878430

Rezensionen

A masterpiece of analysis and imagination...It centres on a sensational discovery in the field of palaeontology - the existence, in the Burgess Shale... of 530-million-year-old fossils unique in age, preservation and diversity...With skill and passion, Gould takes this mute collection of fossils and makes them speak to us. The result challenges some of our most cherished self-perceptions and urges a fundamental re-assessment of our place in the history of life on earth Sunday Times