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Life's Grandeur: Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin (Paperback)

by Stephen Jay Gould (Author)

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Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (4 Sep 1997)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0099893606
ISBN-13: 978-0099893608
Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 2.6 cm

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In his characteristically iconoclastic and original way, 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'.

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

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I like Gould's collections of essays a lot. This "full-length book" however was rather disappointing. The main problem it suffers from is redundancy. First of all it is "internally" redundant, in the sense that Gould will stress certain points again and again. It's as if he's no too sure about the readers' intellectual capacities. Some good editing could have made this book half as short. Secondly, it's also "externally" redundant: a lot of what is in here can be found in essays in one of his excellent collections (e.g. if you've read the essays he wrote about his bout with cancer or about how batters in baseball haven't gotten worse, then don't bother reading this book). If you've never read Gould and you want to read something by him, I suggest you read one of the collections of essays (e.g. The Flamingo's Smile, or Bully for Brontosaurus)

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