WONDERFUL LIFE: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History<i> by Stephen Jay Gould (W.W. Norton: $15.95; 347pp.) </i>
“Understanding how evolutionary biologists actually work, as Gould so lovingly details, ought to stop the persistent claims that the great creation myths have anything to do with science.”
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