Life's Grandeur : The Spread of Excellence From Plato to Darwin

ISBN-13: 9780099893608 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 272 str.

Stephen Jay Gould

Opis

Argues that progress and increasing complexity are not inevitable features of the evolution of life on Earth. This book states that 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 unfathomably rich source of 'endless forms most beautiful and wonderful'.

Recenzje

A hard, even ruthless, completion of Darwinism which is, nevertheless, exhilarating and allows for future argument Melvyn Bragg The Times

O autorze

Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology at Harvard University and the curator for invertebrate palaeontology in the University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. He is the author of over twenty books, and received the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the MacArthur Fellowship. He died in May 2002.