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  Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin (Paperback) By (author) Stephen Jay Gould

  

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  Short Description for Full HouseGould shows why a more accurate way of understanding our world is to look at a given subject within its own context, to see it as a part of a spectrum of variation and then to reconceptualize trends as expansion or contraction of this "full house" of variation, and not as the progress or degeneration of an average value, or single thing.
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  • Publisher: The Belknap Press
  • Published: 20 September 2011
  • Format: Paperback 256 pages
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  • Categories: Popular Science | Evolution
  • ISBN 13: 9780674061613 ISBN 10: 0674061616
  • Sales rank: 198,791

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Full description for Full House

• Gould shows why a more accurate way of understanding our world is to look at a given subject within its own context, to see it as a part of a spectrum of variation and then to reconceptualize trends as expansion or contraction of this "full house" of variation, and not as the progress or degeneration of an average value, or single thing.