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" Full house : "
Stephen Jay Gould.
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BL
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1033965
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b788335
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| Main Entry
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Gould, Stephen Jay.
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| Title & Author
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Full house : : the spread of excellence from Plato to Darwin /\ Stephen Jay Gould.
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Harmony Books,, ©1996.
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244 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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0517703947
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: 0609801406
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: 9780517703946
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: 9780609801406
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-237) and index.
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| Contents
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How shall we read and spot a trend? -- Death and horses: two cases for the primacy of variation -- The model batter: extinction of 0.400 hitting and the improvement of baseball -- The modal bacter: why progress does not rule the history of life.
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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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Evolution (Biology)
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Excellence.
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Natural history.
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Nature.
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Biological Evolution.
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Natural History.
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Artenreichtum
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Evolution (Biology)
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Evolution
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Excellence.
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Historia natural.
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Natural history.
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Nature.
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Evolutie.
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| Dewey Classification
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576.8
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| LC Classification
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QH366.2.G6593 1996
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575/G698f
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42.21bcl
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CB 5100rvk
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