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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 1990 ISBN-10: 0-393-30700-X / 039330700X ISBN-13: 978-0-393-30700-9 / 9780393307009 The Burgess Shale of British Columbia "is the most precious and important of all fossil localities," writes Stephen Jay Gould. These 600-million-year-old rocks preserve the soft parts of a collection of animals unlike any other. Just how unlike is the subject of Gould's book. Gould describes ho |