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Full House:

The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
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Harvard University Press, Oct 1, 2011 - Science - 256 pages

Gould shows why a more accurate way of understanding our world is to look at a given subject within its own context, to see it as a part of a spectrum of variation and then to reconceptualize trends as expansion or contraction of this “full house” of variation, and not as the progress or degeneration of an average value, or single thing.

  

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Review: Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin

User Review  - Rob - Goodreads

To "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

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User Review  - Trae - Goodreads

Awesome...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

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Contents

A Modest Proposal
1
How Shall we Read and Spot a Trend?
5
Death and Horses Two Cases for the Primacy of Variation
43
The Model Batter Extinction of 0400 Hitting and the Improvement of Baseball
75
The Modal Bacter Why Progress Does not Rule the History of Life
133
Bibliography
231
Index
238
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Stephen Jay Gould was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University and Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at New York University. A MacArthur Prize Fellow, he received innumerable honors and awards and wrote many books, including Ontogeny and Phylogeny and Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle (both from Harvard).

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