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Analysis of the Burgess Shale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2016

Mark Ridley
Mark Ridley*
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Departments of Anthropology & Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
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Paleobiology , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , Fall 1993 , pp. 519 - 521
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