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Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin |
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From high school biology classes to natural history specials on the Discovery Channel, we've been lead to believe that through the process of natural selection, life progresses toward increasing complexity. Stephen Jay Gould, a professor of geology and zoology at Harvard University and curator for invertebrate paleontology at the university's museum of comparative zoology disagrees. In Full House, he suggests that new species are just as likely to be more simple as more complex than their parents. He argues that if complexity had the upper hand, bacteria wouldn't be so pervasive, and that some species evolve simply because characteristics for growth and survival concentrate on a group or individual by pure chance.
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