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Life's grandeur : the spread of excellence from Plato to Darwin / Stephen Jay Gould

This study critiques the view of evolutionary progress as an inherent move towards complexity, arguing that variety is the primary measure of excellence. It proposes that trends be analysed as changes in variation within whole systems rather than as linear movements.

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