Wonderful Life

The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Autor*innen

• Stephen Jay Gould

Parameter

• Geschichte
• Natur
• Natur, Tiere
• Naturwissenschaften
• Sachliteratur

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Basing his argument around the history of science's treatment of the fossils of the Burgess shale, the author presents a view of evolution as a non-progressive system, which saw a wide range of early designs for life winnowed down to the relatively few basic designs that exist today.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• Einband: Paperback