Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Littafin Stephen Jay Gould mai suna Wonderful Life, da aka buga a shekara ta 1989, ya jawo hankalin jama'a ga burbushin Burgess Shale. Gould ya ba da shawarar cewa bambancin ban mamaki na burbushin halittu ya nuna cewa nau'ikan rayuwa a lokacin sun bambanta sosai a cikin sifar jiki fiye da waɗanda suka tsira a yau, kuma yawancin zuriya na musamman sun kasance gwaje-gwajen juyin halitta waɗanda suka mutu. Fassarar Gould game da bambancin dabbobi na Cambrian ya dogara ne akan sake fassarar Simon Conway Morris game da wallafe-wallafen asali na Charles Walcott. Koyaya, Conway Morris bai yarda da abin da Gould ya kammala ba, yana mai jayayya cewa kusan dukkanin dabbobi na Cambrian za a iya rarraba su a cikin nau'ikan zamani. Burgess Shale ya jawo hankalin masana kimiyyar ilimin halittu waɗanda ke son yin nazari da kuma hasashen canje-canje na dogon lokaci a cikin yanayin duniya. A cewar Peter Ward da Donald Brownlee a cikin littafin 2003 The Life and Death of Planet Earth, masana kimiyyar yanayi suna nazarin bayanan burbushin halittu a cikin Burgess Shale don fahimtar yanayin fashewar Cambrian, kuma suna amfani da shi don hango yadda yanayin Duniya zai kasance kamar shekaru miliyan 500 a nan gaba lokacin da dumama da fadada Rana haɗe da raguwar CO2 da matakan oxygen a ƙarshe suna dumama Duniya zuwa yanayin zafi da ba a taɓa gani ba tun lokacin Archean Eon shekaru biliyan 3 da suka gabata, kafin tsirrai da dabbobi na farko suka bayyana, sabili da haka fahimtar yadda kuma lokacin da rayayyun halittu na ƙarshe zasu mutu. Duba kuma Makomar Duniya.  Tambaya: Menene littafin nan Wonderful Life na Gould ya mai da hankali a kai?
Burges Shale burbushin halittu