Gould argued that although the Burgess animals were all exquisitely adapted to their environment, most of them left no modern descendants and, more importantly, surviving creatures did not seem better adapted than their now extinct contemporaneous neighbours, a view that has now been challenged by Richard Dawkins and others. The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History a description of one of the biggest fossil finds ever - a collection of invertebrate remains dating from the. He based this argument on the wonderfully preserved fossil fauna of the Burgess Shale, animals from around 505 million years ago, just after the Cambrian explosion. Gould's thesis in 'Wonderful Life' was that chance was one of the decisive factors in the evolution of life on earth. Gould spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Buy a discounted Hardcover of Wonderful Life online from. In a recent book, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of. Booktopia has Wonderful Life, The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation. Gould is a prominent evolutionary thinker and theoretician of biology. Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002), was an American palaeontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, not price clipped (no published price, marked 'not for sale'), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy.

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