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Full house, the spread of excellence from Plato to Darwin, Stephen Jay Gould

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Full house, the spread of excellence from Plato to Darwin, Stephen Jay Gould

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Bibliography: p. [231]-237

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illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Full house

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

35359843

Responsibility statement

Stephen Jay Gould

Sub title

the spread of excellence from Plato to Darwin

Summary

Presents a new view of scientific progress in which variety, and not complexity, is heralded as the true measure of excellence, illustrated by examples such as the disappearance of 0.400 hitting in baseball, and the absence of modern Mozarts

Table Of Contents

How shall we read and spot a trend? -- Death and horses: two cases for the primacy of variation -- The model batter: extinction of 0.400 hitting and the improvement of baseball -- The modal bacter: why progress does not rule the history of life

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