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Lieferstatus:	Auf Bestellung (Lieferzeit unbekannt)
Veröffentlichung:	August 2000
Genre:	Naturwissensch., Medizin, Technik
	Dinosaurs & the prehistoric world / Dinosaurs and the prehistoric world# general interest / Evolution / History of Science / natural history / NATURE / Animals / Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures / Nature and the natural world# general interest / Palaeontology / SCIENCE / Paleontology
ISBN:	9780099273455
EAN-Code:	9780099273455
Verlag:	Random House Uk
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 198 mm / B 129 mm / D 21 mm
Gewicht:	245 gr
Seiten:	352
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Inhalt:

High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago. Called the Burgess Shale, it holds the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived - a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in incredible detail. In this book Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burgess Shale might tell us about evolution and the nature of history. The Darwinian theory of evolution is a well-known, well-explored area. But there is one aspect of human life which this theory of evolution fails to account for: chance. Using the brilliantly preserved fossil fauna of the Burgess Shale as his case study, Gould argues that chance was in fact one of the decisive factors in the evolution of life on this planet, and that, with a flip of coin, everything could have been very different indeed.