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1章期待の図像を解読する
2章バージェス頁岩の背景説明
3章バージェス頁岩の復元―新しい生命観の構築
4章ウォルコットの観点と歴史の本質
5章実現しえた世界―"ほんとうの歴史"の威力

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1909年、カナダで5億年前の不思議な化石小動物群が発見された。当初、節足動物と思われたその奇妙奇天烈、妙ちくりんな生きものたちはしかし、既存の分類体系のどこにも収まらず、しかもわれわれが抱く生物進化観に全面的な見直しを迫るものだった…100点以上の珍しい図版を駆使して化石発見と解釈にまつわる緊迫のドラマを再現し、歴史の偶発性と生命の素晴らしさを謳いあげる、進化生物学の旗手グールドの代表作。

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The Burgess Shale of British Columbia "is the most precious and important of all fossil localities," writes Stephen Jay Gould. These 600-million-year-old rocks preserve the soft parts of a collection of animals unlike any other. Just how unlike is the subject of Gould's book.

Gould describes how the Burgess Shale fauna was discovered, reassembled, and analyzed in detail so clear that the reader actually gets some feeling for what paleobiologists do, in the field and in the lab. The many line drawings are unusually beautiful, and now can be compared to a wonderful collection of photographs in Fossils of the Burgess Shale by Derek Briggs, one of Gould's students.

Burgess Shale animals have been called a "paleontological Rorschach test," and not every geologist by any means agrees with Gould's thesis that they represent a "road not taken" in the history of life. Simon Conway Morris, one of the subjects of Wonderful Life, has expressed his disagreement in Crucible of Creation. Wonderful Life was published in 1989, and there has been an explosion of scientific interest in the pre-Cambrian and Cambrian periods, with radical new ideas fighting for dominance. But even though many scientists disagree with Gould about the radical oddity of the Burgess Shale animals, his argument that the history of life is profoundly contingent--as in the movie It's a Wonderful Life, from which this book ta

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