num_pages: 347
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: English
title: Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
titlecomplete: Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
genres: Palaeontology, Nature, Geology, Natural History, Biology, Science, Nonfiction, Popular Science, Evolution, History
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: Hutchinson Radius