num_pages: 352
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: 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: W. W. Norton & Company