- Life, British Columbia, Invertebrate fossils, Paleontology
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Epic, cool, contemplative and plot-driven.
- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Stephen Jay Gould
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Seuil, W. W. Norton, Norton
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9782020122696
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“Not since the Lord himself showed his stuff to Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones had anyone brought such grace and skill to the reconstruction of animals from disarticulated skeletons.”
Stephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation. - Wikipedia
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