Wonderful Life

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Wonderful Life is written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by W. W. Norton & Company. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0393245209 (ISBN 10) and 9780393245202 (ISBN 13).

"[An] extraordinary book. . . . Mr. Gould is an exceptional combination of scientist and science writer. . . . He is thus exceptionally well placed to tell these stories, and he tells them with fervor and intelligence."—James Gleick, New York Times Book Review High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived—a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail. In this book Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burgess Shale tells us about evolution and the nature of history.