Wonderful Life - Stephen Jay Gould

Wonderful Life

The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Buch | Hardcover
350 Seiten
1989
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-02705-1 (ISBN)
54,30 inkl. MwSt
"[An] extraordinary book. . . . Mr. Gould is an exceptional combination of scientist and science writer. . . . He is thus exceptionally well placed to tell these stories, and he tells them with fervor and intelligence."—James Gleick, New York Times Book Review
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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 22.11.1989
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 127 x 203 mm
Gewicht 670 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Mineralogie / Paläontologie
ISBN-10 0-393-02705-8 / 0393027058
ISBN-13 978-0-393-02705-1 / 9780393027051
Zustand Neuware
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