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Gould: Wonderful Life - the Burgess Shale & the Nature of History (Cloth): The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History Book
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W.W. Norton Hardcover with 346 pgs. and size: 9 1/2 x 6 3/4", Illustrated. Tucked into the Canadian Rockies, 8000 feet above sea level, is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. Here, lived dozens of creatures never seen before or since-including the five-eyed Opabinia and Anomalocaris whose mouth was a circular nutcracker. Classification of these things of the earth went to Dr. Charles D. Walcott. He misinterpreted these peculiar fossils and shoehorned all Burgess animals into the conventional categories of worms and arthropods. The story of why Walcott failed-how he could not have succeeded given his time and his past-and how and why Whittington did succeed tells us much about science and society.
- 0393027058
- 9780393027051
- SJ GOULD
- 22 November 1989
- WW Norton & Co
- Hardcover (Book)
- 348
- First Edition First Printing
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