Gould, Stephen Jay.

Full house the spread of excellence from Plato to Darwin / [electronic resource] : Stepehn Jay Gould. - 1st Harvard University Press ed. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. - 244 p. : ill.

Originally published: New York : Harmony Books, c1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. How shall we read and spot a trend? -- pt. 2. Death and horses : two cases for the primacy of variation -- pt. 3. The model batter : extinction of 0.400 hitting and the improvement of baseball -- pt. 4. The modal bacter : why progress does not rule the history of life.


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Evolution (Biology)
Natural history.
Excellence.


Electronic books.

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