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  • Life's Grandeur: The Spread of Excellence From Plato to Darwin

    Life's Grandeur by Gould, Stephen Jay;

    The Spread of Excellence From Plato to Darwin

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Vintage
    • Date of Publication 1 January 2005
    • Number of Volumes B-format paperback

    • ISBN 9780099893608
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages272 pages
    • Size 198x129x17 mm
    • Weight 191 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    'Reading Gould is not merely a pleasure but an education and a chronicle of the times' - Observer

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    Long description:

    In his characteristically iconoclastic and original way, Stephen Jay Gould argues that progress and increasing complexity are not inevitable features of the evolution of life on Earth. Further, if we wish to see grandeur in life, we must discard our selfish and anthropocentric view of evolution and learn to see it as Darwin did, as the random but unfathomably rich source of 'endless forms most beautiful and wonderful'. Any rational view of nature tells us that we are a simple branch on an immense bush; and that life on Earth is remarkable not for where it is leading, but for the fullness and constancy of its variety, ingenuity and diversity.

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