Review: Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
User Review - Rob - GoodreadsTo "evolve" if too often defined as to improve, or become better. This book counters that view, offering evidence that evolution is adjustments made due to changes in the local environment. As the ... Read full review
Review: Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
User Review - Trae - GoodreadsAwesome...just when I think I understand evolution I get to learn something that alters and enhances my understanding and appreciation of the theory of evolution. The only weakness...and this is a ... Read full review
Review: Life's Grandeur: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
User Review - Andrea Walker - GoodreadsFascinating, as usual. I also now know more about baseball than I ever wanted to, but that was also very interesting. I imagine I'm like most people in disliking the idea that humanity isn't special ... Read full review
Review: Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
User Review - Christin - GoodreadsI've got to read this book for extra credit for my Microbiology course, but so far, pretty interesting Read full review
Review: Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
User Review - Eric Boucher - GoodreadsFrom baseball to the origins of life Gould changed the way I looked at sports and the world around me. Read full review
Review: Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
User Review - Jeff Smith-Hayzer - GoodreadsLife's Grandeur, Stephen J. Gould If you are not familiar with Gould's work then you should be warned that this is no ordinary, box standard evolutionary theorist. Being a strict Darwinian, Gould ... Read full review
Review: Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
User Review - Carlo - GoodreadsThe ideas outlined in this book can easily get a 5-star rating. My understanding of evolution after reading it is entirely different from what it was before doing so. Gould shattered some old concepts ... Read full review
Review: Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
User Review - Nightlite - GoodreadsI loved Gould's book on the Burgess Shale. But this book arguing for a materialist view of evolution where random chance produces the marvelous variety of life we know, just didn't hold water for me ... Read full review
Review: Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
User Review - Melanie - Goodreadsboring; could not get through Read full review
Review: Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
User Review - Terry - GoodreadsWhy are there no 400 hitters in baseball? Where have all the great composers gone? How did Gould "beat the odds" regarding his cancer? Does evolution produce a concept of progress? These are central ... Read full review
