Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin - Hardcover

Gould, Stephen Jay

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0517703947 ISBN 13: 9780517703946

Verlag: Harmony Books, 1996

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Book by Gould Stephen Jay

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The nation's most popular science writer and the author of Wonderful Life argues against popular conceptions about the nature of progress and evolution, and shows how variety is the essence of life. 100,000 first printing. National ad/promo. Tour.

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estion the truism that humankind is the crowning achievement of evolution; that the defining thrust of life's history yields progress over time from the primitive and simple to the more advanced and complex; that the disappearance of .400 hitting in baseball is a fact to be bemoaned; or that identifying an existing trend can be helpful in making important life decisions. Few, that is, except Stephen Jay Gould who, in his new book Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin, proves that all of these intuitive truths are, in fact, wrong.

"All of these mistaken beliefs arise out of the same analytical flaw in our reasoning, our Platonic tendency to reduce a broad spectrum to a single, pinpointed essence," says Gould. "This way of thinking allows us to confirm our most ingrained biases that humans are the supreme being on this planet; that all things are inherently driven to become more complex; and that almost any subject can be expressed and understood in terms

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• Verlag: Harmony Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0517703947
• ISBN 13: 9780517703946
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 244