About this title: Centres on a sensational discovery in the field of palaeontology - the existence in the Burgess Shale of 530-million-year-old-fossils, unique in age, preservation and diversity.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780393027051ISBN:0393027058
Description: Good in very good dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. Flexible some, little edge wear, some scattered markings. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 348 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Date Published: 1989
Description: Good. Soft cover with average shelf/handling/edge wear. Clean inside pages. Good binding. Some light curling/creasing of corners/covers/pages/edges. read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Norton*(ww Norton Co
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780393027051ISBN:0393027058
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Norton/Book Club
Date Published: 1989-01-01
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"I didn't think I liked nonfiction, and especially not heavy-duty scientific stuff like I thought this was. But this book is something altogether different. It is a loving tribute to the scientific method and a vigorously exciting story about the discovery and eventual elucidation (after a significant wrong turn) of the mysteries of the Burgess Shale. It's the story of one of most important discoveries in modern evolutionary biology, and it's told in such a way that people not deeply schooled in science can still enjoy it.
For me, the book was hugely eye-opening, both scientifically and philosophically, and I absolutely loved it."
"Along with the Galapagos Islands, I want to visit the Burgess Shale in Canada. The life forms discovered in the Shale are cause for rethinking life on Earth. Gould tells the great story of their discovery and possible implications for evolutionary theory."
"This book begins as a study of the Burgess Shale, the famous deposits of shale pregnant with fossils from the Cambrian. It ends, however, with a look at life based on these creatures. The title was inspired by the film It's a Wonderful Life starring Jimmy Stewart, and focuses on the life earth would sustain without the appearance of complex organisms during the Cambrian explosion (similar to the scene in Jimmy Stewart's film when an angel demonstrates life without Stewart to him). Gould finishes with an optimistic perception: that if we should replay the Cambrian explosion a million times over, nothing like Homo sapiens would ever evolve again. We should rejoice in our lives, and wonder why we are here, why we did evolve at all."
"Fantastic book. The author talks a lot about contingency in evolution (his famous "rewinding the tape of life" experiment is presented in this book). It can get a little boring when he goes on and on about describing the fossils."
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