Wonderful Life
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (1989) is a book on the evolution of Cambrian fauna by Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. Wonderful Life was the 1991 winner of The Aventis Prizes for Science Books, and a 1991 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
In this book, Gould presents his thesis that chance was one of the decisive factors in the evolution of life on earth. His thesis is based on the wonderfully preserved fossil fauna of the Burgess Shale, animals from...
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