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Full House

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Stephen Jay Gould 作者
Three Rivers Press
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1997-9-16 出版日期
244 页数
USD 15.95 价格
Paperback
丛书系列
9780609801406 图书编码

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evolution不是一个完全正面的概念。气场非常强的论说。

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斯蒂芬·杰·古尔德(Stephen Jay Gould),当今世界上著名的进化论者,古生物学家、科学史学家和科学散文作家。1945年生于纽约,在安蒂奥克学院,哥伦比亚大学研读古生物并获博士学位。现任教于哈佛大学,并从事研究工作。主要著作有《自达尔文以来》、《熊猫的拇指》、《汉斯的牙与马的蹄》、《八头小猪》等。


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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 fact to be bemoaned; or that identifying an existing trend can be helpful in making important life decisions. Few, that is, except Stephen Jay Gould who, in his new book Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin, proves that all of these intuitive truths are, in fact, wrong.

"All of these mistaken beliefs arise out of the same analytical flaw in our reasoning, our Platonic tendency to reduce a broad spectrum to a single, pinpointed essence," says Gould. "This way of thinking allows us to confirm our most ingrained biases that humans are the supreme being on this planet; that all things are inherently driven to become more complex; and that almost any subject can be expressed and understood in terms of an average."

In Full House, Gould shows why a more accurate way of understanding our world (and the history of life) is to look at a given subject within its own context, to see it as a part of a spectrum of variation rather than as an isolated "thing" and then to reconceptualize trends as expansion or contraction of this "full house" of variation, and not as the progress or degeneration of an average value, or single thing. When approached in such a way, the disappearance of .400 hitting becomes a cause for celebration, signaling not a decline in greatness but instead an improvement in the overall level of play in baseball; trends become subject to suspicion, and too often, only a tool of those seeking to advance a particular agenda; and the "Age of Man" (a claim rooted in hubris, not in fact) more accurately becomes the "Age of Bacteria."

"The traditional mode of thinking has led us to draw many conclusions that don't make satisfying sense," says Gould. "It tells us that .400 hitting has disappeared because batters have gotten worse, but how can that be true when record performances have improved in almost any athletic activity?" In a personal eureka!, Gould realized that we were looking at the picture backward, and that a simple conceptual inversion would resolve a number of the paradoxes of the conventional view.

While Full House deftly reveals the shortcomings of the popular reasoning we apply to everyday life situations, Gould also explores his beloved realm of natural history as well. Whether debunking the myth of the successful evolution of the horse (he grants that the story still deserves distinction, but as the icon of evolutionary failure); presenting evidence that the vaunted "progress of life" is really random motion away from simple beginnings, not directed impetus toward complexity; or relegating the kingdoms of Animalai and Plantae to their proper positions on the genealogical chart for all of life (as mere twigs on one of the three bushes), Full House asks nothing less than that we reconceptualize our view of life in a fundamental way.

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在《开卷八分钟》里听说的这本书,借来看,看起来自然不会像读小说一样迅速而流畅,但其收获值得我花那些时间。 惊异于思维的多元性,发觉到自己思维的不开阔。原来有些事是可以这么考虑的。 我们,不过是生物演化过程中的意外,我们更不是什么世界的主宰。用一颗谦虚的态度来...  

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有能力的还是看原文,任何翻译必然损失不少表意,尤其是一些隐喻的表达。优秀的翻译应该以注释的方式说明隐喻的来历涵义,宁多勿少,给读者尽量多的理解原材料。 这个翻译的做法就是反面典型。书名是 Full house:the spread of excellence from plato to darwin。Full house在...  

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最成功的“进化”属于人类吗?但“进化”与“趋势”本身只是人自身的概念限定。大自然,未必会这么听人类的话。如此看来,或许细菌更适合被称为是地球的“主人”? 不过书中太多关于棒球0.400命中率的论述与讲解,对于大陆这些棒球相对不怎么普及的读者来说,理解起来是有点隔...  

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