Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould

Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin

Stephen Jay Gould

256 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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The human mind has a trusty device for simplifying a complex world: reduce to averages and identify trends. Although valuable, the risk is that we ignore variations and end up with a skewed view of reality. In evolutionary terms, the result is a v...

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