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Life's grandeur : the spread of excellence from Plato to Darwin by Gould, Stephen Jay is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Life's grandeur : the spread of excellence from Plato to Darwin about?
In Full House, Gould corrects the prevalent, anthropocentric view of the world with an eloquent argument for a new paradigm of progress in which variety - not complexity - is the true measure of excellence. In the process, Full House teaches us how to read trends as changes in variation within full systems, rather than as "things moving somehwere".
Who reads Life's grandeur : the spread of excellence from Plato to Darwin?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Gould, Stephen Jay
- Publisher
- Trafalgar Square
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780224041324
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Fiction, Science, Philosophy
- Rating
- 3.95 / 5 (41 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
Other editions & translations
- Full house : the spread of excellence from Plato to Darwin (2010)
- Full House - The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin (1996)
- L'Eventail du vivant. Le mythe du progrès (Science ouverte) (1997)
- L'Eventail du vivant. Le mythe du progrès (Science ouverte) (2001)
- Full House - The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin (2007)
- Full house : the spread of excellence from Plato to Darwin (2011)
- L'Éventail du vivant : le mythe du progrès (1997)
- Full house : the spread of excellence from Plato to Darwin (1997)
- Essai/Gould,Stephen Jay//L'Eventail du vivant - Gould,Stephen Jay (1997)
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