Full house: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
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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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Full house: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin, Stephen Jay Gould
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- Title
- Full house: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Stephen Jay Gould
- Publisher
- Three Rivers
- Released
- 1997
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0609801406
- ISBN13
- 9780609801406
- Category
- Theory and history of science
- Description
- 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.