by Stephen Jay Gould · FisicalBook · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788474234930
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«La vida maravillosa» is the popular science essay by Stephen Jay Gould, published by FisicalBook in paperback (368 pages, in Spanish).
The Burgess Shale fossils in Canada, 530 million years old, show a diversity of organisms greater than today's. Gould argues that evolution does not follow linear progress and that chance and contingency are decisive. For him, human emergence is not an inevitable culmination but a recent accident that could become extinct.
Originally published in English as «Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History» (1989). Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
For readers interested in popular science, paleontology, and the debate on chance and necessity in evolution.
Stephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, historian of science, and one of the most widely read authors of popular science of his generation. He is considered by many to be one of the most influential figures in evolutionary biology. Gould spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. In 1996, Gould was hired as the Vincent Astor Visiting Research Professor of Biology at New York University, after which he divided his time teaching between there and Harvard.
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