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Wonderful life : the Burgess Shale and the nature of history / Stephen Jay Gould

by Stephen Jay Gould

This work examines the Burgess Shale fossils in British Columbia to analyse the role of contingency in evolution. It explores how life might have developed differently and details the discovery and scientific reinterpretation of these specimens.

Accession 16909 ISBN 9780140133806 Publisher Penguin
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