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The burgess shale and the nature of history by stephen jay gould available from rakuten kobo. Stephen jay gould was born and raised in the community of bayside, a neighborhood of the northeastern section of queens in new york city. Stephen jay gould 19412002 was the alexander agassiz professor of zoology and professor of geology at harvard university and the curator for invertebrate palaeontology in the universitys museum of comparative zoology. The burgess shale and the nature of history is a book on the evolution of cambrian fauna by harvard paleontologist stephen jay gould. Gould spent most of his career teaching at harvard university and working at the american museum of natural history in new york. The burgess shale and the nature of history by stephen jay gould focuses mainly on the burgess shale in british columbia high up in the canadian rockies. It is well written, concise, and easy for a man like me art major to understand. The darwinian theory of evolution is a wellknown, wellexplored area.
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Wonderful life the burgess shale and the nature of history book. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. Gould plays the role of the angel, rolling back the tape of life a half billion years for his readers through the lens of the burgess shale british columbia, arguably the most important fossil site on the planet. The book, published in 1989, was a best seller and won the aventis prize for science books in 1991 and was a finalist for the pulitzer prize in that same year. Explains why the diversity of the burgess shale is important in understanding our past and evolution.
Wonderful life the burgess shale and the nature of history ebook. Rocks of ages by stephen jay gould overdrive rakuten. He published over twenty books, received the national book and national book critics circle awards, and a macarthur fellowship. Wonderful life the burgess shale and the nature of history.
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