Wonderful Life (book)
Cover of the first edition | |
| Author | Stephen Jay Gould |
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| Language | English |
| Subjects | Evolutionary history of life Burgess Shale |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Co. |
Publication date | 1989 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 347 pp. |
| ISBN | 0-393-02705-8 |
| OCLC | 18983518 |
| 560/.9 19 | |
| LC Class | QE770 .G67 1989 |
| Preceded by | An Urchin in the Storm |
| Followed by | Bully for Brontosaurus |
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History is a 1989 book on the evolution of Cambrian fauna by Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. The volume made The New York Times Best Seller list, was the 1991 winner of the Royal Society's Rhone-Poulenc Prize and the American Historical Association's Forkosch Award, and was a 1991 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Pulitzer juror Joyce Carol Oates later revealed the non-fiction jury had unanimously recommended the book for the prize, but the selection was rejected by the Pulitzer board. Gould described his later book Full House (1996) as a companion volume to Wonderful Life.