This is an auction for LIFE'S GRANDEUR by Stephen Jay Gould.

Subtitled "THE SPREAD OF EXCELLENCE FROM PLATO TO DARWIN"

"A hard, even ruthless, completion of Darwinism which is, nevertheless, exhilarating and allows for future argument."

• The Times

"Gould only enriches the texture of his writing with each successive phase-He would not be the great science writer that he is if he were not also a great humanist."

• New Statesman & Society

"Gould's depth and humanity fit him for Montaigne's mantle more plausibly that anyone else currently writing... Lucid, exciting, accessible."

• Sunday Times (UK)

Amazon.com reviews:

"In his characteristically iconoclastic and original way, Stephen Jay 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'. Any rational view of nature tells us that life on Earth is remarkable for the fullness and constancy of its variety, ingenuity and diversity."

"FIVE STARS: A great book by a great author: enlightening while entertaining. The main point of the book concerning misleading statistics can be applied in many parts of one's life."

More very favourable reviews on Amazon.com.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology at Harvard University. He was the author of over twenty books, and received the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the MacArthur Fellowship.

Paperback 1997.

244 pages.

Good condition.

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