The Crucible of Creation
The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals
Simon Conway Morris
Price: £16.00 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-286202-0
Publication date: 7 October 1999
Oxford Paperbacks
272 pages, 4 colour plates, halftones, line drawings, 196x129 mm
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| Reviews |
| - ''tells a great story and manages to be informative at all levels.' - New Scientist
- 'spiritually uplifting' - THES
- 'The centerpiece of The Crucible of Creation is a descripion, authoritative and readable, of the animals themselves' - New York Times Book Review
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| Description | | - The author is one of the leading researchers in palaeontology, with unique authority in the field
- Brings a forceful counter-argument to the views of Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould on evolutionary theory
- The author gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 1996, televised by the BBC, and he is known in media circles
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'tells a great story and manages to be informative at all levels. Conway Morris has a collector's eye for the sort of entertaining yet informative snippets that keep readers on their toes.'
New Scientist
Located in the west of Canada, the Burgess Shale contains a unique collection of fossil remains, and has become an icon for those studying the history of life. This remarkable book
takes us on a fresh journey back in time through the Burgess Shale and its astonishing collection of pre-Cambrian creatures. In an entertaining and readable style, Simon Conway Morris paints a vivid picture of the critical period which saw the diversification of all the major animal groups, and takes a controversial stance on current evolutionary theories that is sure to provoke much interest and
debate.
'It is less bleak in its assessment of life on earth and it is spiritually uplifting, rather than dry and mechanistic as some would have us believe'
THES R
'The centerpiece of The Crucible of Creation
is a description, authoritative and readable, of the animals themselves.
New York Times Book Review
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| Contents |
Introduction; 1. Setting the Scene; 2. The discovery of the Burgess Shale; 3. Journey to the Burgess Shale; 4. The search for new Burgess Shales; 5. The significance of the Burgess Shale; 6. The origin of phyla; 7. Other worlds; 8. The last word; Acknowledgements; Appendix 1: Further Reading; Appendix 2: Exhibitions; Appendix 3: Localities; Glossary; Index.
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| Authors, editors,
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Simon Conway Morris, Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology, University of Cambridge
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