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. While that book wasnt an inspiration for starting the LTEE, I often quote. But there is one aspect of human life which this theory of evolution fails to account for: chance. I wrote about Stephen Jay Goulds book, Wonderful Life, in a previous post. The Darwinian theory of evolution is a well-known, well-explored area. In this book Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burgess Shale might tell us about evolution and the nature of history. 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. ”High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago.
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