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| Author | Stephen Jay Gould |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subjects | Evolutionary history of life Burgess Shale |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Co. |
Publication date | 1989 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 347 pp. |
| ISBN | 0-393-02705-8 |
| OCLC | 18983518 |
| 560/.9 19 | |
| LC Class | QE770 .G67 1989 |
| Preceded by | An Urchin in the Storm |
| Followed by | Bully for Brontosaurus |
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History is a 1989 book on the evolution of Cambrian fauna by Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. The volume made The New York Times Best Seller list,[1] was the 1991 winner of the Royal Society's Rhone-Poulenc Prize, the American Historical Association's Forkosch Award, and was a 1991 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Gould described his later book Full House (1996) as a companion volume to Wonderful Life.[2]
- ^ McDowell, Edwin (1989). "Book Notes." The New York Times Nov. 8.
- ^ Gould, S. J. (1996). Full House: The Spread of Excellence From Plato to Darwin. New York: Harmony Books, p. 4.