Full HouseGould 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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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 |
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abstract Adapted American League animals argument bacteria bacterial mode ball baseball baseball's basic batting averages bell curve better bias Boston Marathon central tendency Cope's Rule creatures cultural Darwin Darwinian decline decrease direction disappearance of 0.400 domination driven trend drunkard's walk earth entire Equus eukaryotic evolution evolutionary example exist expanding extinction of 0.400 favored Figure fossil record full house Gould hitters hitting horses human Huxley Hyracotherium improvement increasing complexity left wall life's history limited lineages live major mammals McShea mean batting average measure of central median Mesohippus mesothelioma million minimal complexity Miohippus modal bacter modern moving multicellular Nannippus natural selection never organisms paleontologists passive pathway percent perissodactyls photosynthesis pitchers pitching planktonic planktonic forams play players potential progress random reasons right tail right wall right-skewed distribution sequence skewed species story tion toes values variation vertebrates wall of minimal Wee Willie Keeler