This View of Life 

I've just begun reading Stephen J Gould's "Wonderful Life". So far (50 pages) the book is fixating...that is, hard to put down. I love Cambrian life. It is perhaps the most important and diverse life the planet has ever seen. Most of the animals that lived in the Cambrian left no descendents. These were the most unique and important experiments of evolution. From here nature determined where evolution would proceed for the next 500 million years. "Wonderful Life" discusses, primarily, the Burgess Shale fossils in Canada. As usual Stephen J Gould gives his views on evolution, extinction and taxonomy as well as how science treats these subjects.

This is a GREAT read! If you haven't read it yet, treat yourself to this book! Gould at his greatest!

The American Museum of Natural History is one of my favourite places to be. There's a seemingly endless supply of wonders to delight the eye and the mind!

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