Wonderful life : the Burgess shale and the nature of history. Stephen Jay Gould

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Gould, Stephen Jay

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Penguin, 1991.Description: 347pISBN:

9780140133806 pbk
9780140133806 pbk

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Summary: Basing his argument around the history of science's treatment of the fossils of the Burgess shale, the author presents a view of evolution as a non-progressive system, which saw a wide range of early designs for life winnowed down to the relatively few basic designs that exist today.

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Includes index.

Basing his argument around the history of science's treatment of the fossils of the Burgess shale, the author presents a view of evolution as a non-progressive system, which saw a wide range of early designs for life winnowed down to the relatively few basic designs that exist today.

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