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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