The Crucible of Creation : The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals
Editorial Reviews
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The Burgess Shale deposits, in western Canada, have joined the Galapagos Islands as a destination of choice for vacationing scientists and fans of evolutionary theory. The fame of these places is in part due to the unique flora and fauna (living or dead) they boast, and in part to the scientists who have described and attempted to explain them. Like Stephen J. Gould's Wonderful Life, this book from Simon Conway Morris, original describer of the fascinating, troubling fossil Hallucigenia, gives an account of the Burgess Shale and the scientists who argue over the tiny remains of once-living creatures. Conway Morris calls the place "the most wonderful fossil deposit in the world," and his emotion is contagious. Beyond describing the creatures that formed the fossils, he speculates about how the Burgess Shale fits in to the story of human evolution.
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The New York Times Book Review, Mark Ridley
The centerpiece of The Crucible of Creation, like that of Wonderful Life, is a description, authoritative and readable, of the animals themselves.
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The Crucible of Creation : The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals
The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals ,Simon Conway-Morris,Oxford University Press, USA,0192862022,Invertebrate Paleontology,Life Sciences - Evolution,Paleontology,Science,Science/Mathematics,Palaeontology,Prehistoric archaeology,Science / Evolution,Zoology & animal sciences
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