Indeed, he provides a complete overview of this remarkable find, ranging from an informative, basic discussion of the origins of life and animals on earth, to a colorful description of Charles Walcott's discovery of the Burgess Shale and of the painstaking scientific work that went on there (as well as in Burgess collections held at Harvard and the Smithsonian), to an account of similar fossil finds in Greenland and in China. In The Crucible of Creation, paleontologist Simon Conway Morris describes the marvelous finds of the Burgess Shale-a fantastically rich deposit of bizarre and bewildering Cambrian fossils, located in Western Canada.Ĭonway Morris is one of the few paleontologists ever to explore the Burgess Shale, having been involved in the dig since 1972, and thus he is an ideal guide to this amazing discovery. Clean, tight, square copy with only light used wear. A very nice book from private collection.
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