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Gould, Stephen Jay Wonderful Life, The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
New York, NY, U.S.A. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 1989 Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Hard Cover As New As New
Cream paper on boards, navy cloth on spine. B/W drawings, illustrations. Volume has faint soil mark on the verso ffep. Now in clear cover. "Tucked into Canadian Rockies, 8000 feet above sea level, is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale; less than a city block long and only ten feet high, the Burgess Shale holds the remains of an ancient sea that nurtured more varities of life than can be found in all of our modern oceans. The early-twentieth century discovery of the Burgess Shale, was made by Dr. Charles D. Walcott, head of the Smithsonian Institution. Walcott, widely conceded to be the greatest paleontologist of his day, was however not able to read the exciting message locked in those fossils. Walcott made a tortured effort to accomodate many truly unclassifiable forms of life within the the standard system, and misinterpreted the the Burgess animals into conventional catagories - there the matter stood until Professor H.B. Whittington reinterpreted forms that had lain in laboratory drawers for over forty years. The story of why Walcott failed - how he could not have succeeded given his time and his past - and how and why Whittington did succeed tells us much about science and society - and about ourselves. For it is our view of life that shapes us.
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