Copyright © 1989 by Stephen Jay Gould
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First published as a Norton paperback 1990; reissued 2007
Book design by Antonina Krass
“Design” copyright 1936 by Robert Frost and renewed 1964 by Lesley Frost Ballantine. Reprinted from The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem, by permission of Henry Holt and Company, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gould, Stephen Jay.
Wonderful life: the Burgess Shale and the nature of history / Stephen Jay Gould.
p. cm. Bibliography: p. Includes index.
1. Evolution–History. 2. Invertebrates, Fossil. 3. Paleontology–Cambrian. 4. Paleontology–British Columbia–Yoho National Park (B.C.) I. Title.
QE770.G67 1989
560’.9–dc l988–37469
ISBN 978-0-393-30700-9
ISBN 978-0-393-24520-2 (e-book)
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