description: 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.
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: La Vida Maravillosa
titlecomplete: La Vida Maravillosa
genres: Biology, Palaeontology, Science, Natural History, Nature, Geology, Evolution, Nonfiction, History, Popular Science
ratings_count: 9747
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Royal Society Science Book Prize
category: General Prize, awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science
publisher: Grijalbo