True, for a few billion years before that, single-cell algae and bacteria filled the planet's seas and swamps, but these organisms were not doing much to engage It was not long before this lucky accident that earthly life began its copious parade. They are certainly the weirdest animal fossils ever found, and they could easily be - as Stephen Jay Gould argues in his extraordinary book ''Wonderful Life'' - the most important. One fine day a half-billion years ago, an underwater mud slide (or some other catastrophe) buried a mob of strange creatures in what has now become a slab of exposed rock known as the Burgess Shale, high up in western Canada's The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History. Section 7, Column 1 Book Review Deskīy JAMES GLEICK James Gleick, the author of ''Chaos: Making a New Science,'' is writing a biography of the physicist Richard Feynman. October 22, 1989, Sunday, Late Edition - Final The New York Times: Book Review Search Article
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