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"[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.


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  • Author : Stephen Jay Gould
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Genre : Science
  • Total Pages : 352 pages
  • ISBN : 0393245209
  • PDF File Size : 55,6 Mb
  • Language : English
  • Rating : 4/5 from 21 reviews

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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • File Size : 31,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 17 September 1990
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"[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

Full House

Full House
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
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  • Release Date : 01 October 2011
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Gould shows why a more accurate way of understanding our world is to look at a given subject within its own context, to see it as a part of a

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  • Publisher : Natural Resources Canada
  • File Size : 31,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 20 May 1985
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  • Publisher : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
  • File Size : 29,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 20 May 1998
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Paleontologist Simon Conway Morris provides a guided tour of the world's richest treasure trove of fossils--a fantastically rich deposit of bizarre and bewildering Cambrain fossils, located in Western Canada. 4 plates. 90

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  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • File Size : 37,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 21 March 2002
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The world’s most revered and eloquent interpreter of evolutionary ideas offers here a work of explanatory force unprecedented in our time—a landmark publication, both for its historical sweep

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"People of good will wish to see science and religion at peace. . . . I do not see how science and religion could be unified, or even synthesized, under any common scheme

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  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • File Size : 44,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 17 July 1992
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More than any other modern scientists, Stephen Jay Gould has opened up to millions the wonders of evolutionary biology. His genius as an essayist lies in his unmatched ability to

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  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • File Size : 32,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 29 November 2010
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"Gould himself is a rare and wonderful animal—a member of the endangered species known as the ruby-throated polymath. . . . [He] is a leading theorist on large-scale patterns in evolution . . . [and]