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Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin Paperback - 1997

by Stephen Jay Gould; Gould


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Stephen Jay Gould is an internationally renowned evolutionary biologist and best-selling author, equally respected by academic and general interest readers. His books for the general reader include seven collections of essays (written for his monthly column in Natural History magazine, which he has done for over twenty years) and three original nonfiction works. Gould is the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology at Harvard and the Curator for Invertebrate Paleontology in the University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and New York City.


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We reveal ourselves in the metaphors we choose for depicting the cosmos in miniature.

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  • Title Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
  • Author Stephen Jay Gould; Gould
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Three Rivers Press (CA), New York
  • Date September 16, 1997
  • ISBN 9780609801406 / 0609801406
  • Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.14 x 5.97 x 0.83 in (23.22 x 15.16 x 2.11 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Natural history, Nature
  • Dewey Decimal Code 576.8
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