No, Gould is not anti-Darwin he’s added a corollary, which is as fascinating as it is contested. Why didn’t these creatures make it? According to Gould, it may have less to do with fitness than with fate: the area appears to have been buried by mudslides during the advent of the Rocky Mountains. Wonderful Life By: Stephen Jay Gould Narrated by: Jonathan Sleep Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins Language: English 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating 20.99 or Free. Unearthed in the early 19th century, the remains of some truly unusual creatures (look at opabinia, for example, or hallucigenia) still fascinate scientists, paleobiologists, naturalists, and other folks curious about evolution. The wonderful life of the title refers to the 500-million-year-old fossilized creatures of the Burgess Shale marine ecosystem in British Columbia. Goulds books on evolutionary theory include Times Arrow, Times Cycle (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987) Wonderful Life (New York: W.W. Sometimes, natural contingencies determine what survives and what doesn’t. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History - Ebook written by Stephen Jay Gould. It’s true, of course, but in Wonderful Life(1989, 323 pp) Stephen Jay Gould guides us through the murkier parts of the algorithm: sometimes it’s not entirely up to us, even in an Anthropocene era.
There’s an element of determinism in our master naturalist studies: if we are good stewards of the land and water, if we respect our fellow creatures and organisms, we all stand a better chance of surviving.
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