Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin

Stephen Jay Gould

Published by Harvard University Press 1996

Full House

The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin

Stephen Jay Gould

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674063396

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About this book

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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Gould Stephen Jay :

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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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	i
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A Modest Proposal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One. HOW SHALL WE READ AND SPOT A TREND? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
Part Two. DEATH AND HORSES: TWO CASES FOR THE PRIMACY OF VARIATION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Part Three. THE MODEL BATTER: EXTINCTION OF 0.400 HITTING AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF BASEBALL Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Part Four. THE MODAL BACTER: WHY PROGRESS DOES NOT RULE THE HISTORY OF LIFE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238

Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Illustrations
- Other: 20 halftones, 10 line illustrations, 18 graphs, 3 tables

eBook

Published: November 29, 2011
ISBN: 9780674063396