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Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
(Hardcover, 1996)
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Author: Stephen Jay Gould
This title shapes a unified and rational picture of nature, history, and life that is often at odds ...
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0517703947
ISBN-13: 9780517703946
Sep 1996
Publisher: Random House Inc
244 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English |
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Synopsis
This title shapes a unified and rational picture of nature, history, and life that is often at odds with what we intuitively 'know' to be true. The book asks the reader to reconceptualize their view of natural reality in a fundamental way. Just as a full house in poker expresses an excellence of all parts together, fortuitous in origin but shaped by selection, this author argues that variation is the ultimate expression of excellence. He supports this view with an abundance of biological and paleontological arcana.
| Size | | Length: | 244 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 19.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
Gould challenges his readers to examine the deep and underlying meanings of the Darwinian revolution and its influences on the nature of human thought and perception in this challenging volume. Anticipate a controversial undercutting of basic religious beliefs in a philosophical and scientific volume which explores common misperceptions about the nature of progress.
Midwest Book Review - Unknown Critic Staff (11/01/1996)
"Quintessentially Gould...fans will be charmed at the cogency and cleverness of his arguments."
Kerman
"A paradigm-shattering look at evolution...readers should rush to witness the first thrust in what may become a royal scientific duel."
Kerman
"[Gould] writes in a consistently graceful, approachable style, with easy elegance and clarity, and he is an incomparable explainer of difficult ideas."
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