Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
Argues against popular conceptions about the nature of progress and evolution, and shows how variety is the essence of life
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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".
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