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Wonderful Life the Burgess

What would the world have been like, if George Bailey of "It's A Wonderful Life" hadn't been born? George was lucky enough to have an angel that could roll back the tape of life and show him how things would have been different. He learned that one contingency changes everything. In "Wonderful LIfe", an homage to the American classic film, "It's A Wonderful Life", Stephen J. Gould plays the role of the angel, rolling back the tape of life a half billion years for his readers through the lens of the Burgess Shale (British Columbia), arguably the most important fossil site on the...

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