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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Stephen Jay Gould |
| ISBN: | 0099273454 9780099273455 |
| OCLC Number: | 45316756 |
| Notes: | Originally published in Great Britain: Hutchinson Radius, 1990. |
| Description: | 347 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Stephen Jay Gould. |
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"A masterpiece of analysis and imagination...It centres on a sensational discovery in the field of palaeontology - the existence, in the Burgess Shale... of 530-million-year-old fossils unique in age, preservation and diversity...With skill and passion, Gould takes this mute collection of fossils and makes them speak to us. The result challenges some of our most cherished self-perceptions and urges a fundamental re-assessment of our place in the history of life on earth" Sunday Times Read more...
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