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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Simon Conway MorrisPublisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.620kg ISBN: 9780198502562ISBN 10: 0198502567 Pages: 265 Publication Date: 01 June 1998 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsSetting the scene; the discovery of the Burgess Shale; journey to the Burgess Shale; the search for new Burgess Shale; the significance of the Burgess Shale; the origin of phyla; other worlds; the last word. Appendix 1: further reading. Appendix 2: exhibitions. Appendix 3: localities.ReviewsThe Burgess Shale is a layer of rock that is a treasure trove for palaeontology. Here are detailed fossils of a host of weird and wonderful beasts that lived 500 million years ago. Many look like nothing that now lives on Earth; they had to be painstakingly reconstructed from shiny grey impressions within slabs of flaky grey stone by scientists like Conway Morris, a Professor at Cambridge University. He writes in an erudite, thorough and authoritative style. And while welcoming the attention given to the Burgess Shale by Stephen Jay Gould's book, Wonderful Life, he suggests that 'several of the claims made by Gould are perhaps exaggerated, and that some of them may be either incorrect or simply uninteresting'. Then he tells you why. It is great to have a ringside seat at a good scientific scrap, and this is one of the best. The Crucible of Creation is not as easy a read as Wonderful Life but it certainly leaves you with the feeling that its author has won this round, at least. (Kirkus UK) Author InformationSimon Conway Morris is Professor of Paleontology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge, England, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society. He lives in Cambridge. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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