Curt Barnes’s Reviews > Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History > Status Update

Gould's magnum opus, a sprawling, ruminative celebration of his field in a focus on one of its greatest discoveries. Gould is erudite as has been no paleontologist before him and deploys his brilliance and fertile mind to create a volume that entertains the literate reader well beyond the usual science book intended for a lay audience.