Few would question the truism that humankind is the crowning achievement of evolution; that the defining thrust of life's history yields progress over time from the primitive and simple to the more advanced and complex; that the disappearance of .400 hitting in baseball is a...
Few would question the truism that humankind is the crowning achievement of evolution; that the defining thrust of life's history yields, progress-over time from the primitive and simple to the more advanced and complex; that the disappearance of 400 hitting in baseball is a...
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...