Full House : the spread of excellence from Plato to Darwin

By - Gould, Stephen Jay

Floor - Floor 2

Published - Harmony Books, New York, 1996

ISBN 10 - 0609801406

ISBN 13 - 9780609801406

Book Status - 2 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Evolution (Biology)

Shelf No - 5

Call Number - 576.8 GOU

Physical Description - 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes - Includes Bibliography and Index

Book Information

Presents a new view of scientific progress in which variety, and not complexity, is heralded as the true measure of excellence, illustrated by examples such as the disappearance of 0.400 hitting in baseball, and the absence of modern Mozarts.

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