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.
Buku ini menceritakan bagaimana kehidupan di Bumi mulai dari katak sampai kadal purba. Dan banyak lagi.'
Sometimes it's the imprint of an ancient leaf in a rock. sometimes it's a woolly mammoth, frozen for thousands of years in the icy ground. sometimes it's the skeleton of a stegosaurus that has turned a stone.'