Good Enough: The Tolerance For Mediocrity In Nature And Society Daniel S Milo Harvard University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Science Biology Biochemistry

In This Spirited And Irreverent Critique Of Darwin’s Long Hold Over Our Imagination A Distinguished Philosopher Science Makes The Case That Culture As Well Nature Not Only Fittest Survive: World Is Full “Good Enough” Persist Too Why Genome Salamander Forty Times Larger Than Human? Does Avocado Tree Produce Million Flowers Hundred Fruits? Short There So Much Waste Nature? Lively Wide-Ranging Meditation On Curious Accidents Unexpected Detours Path Life Daniel Milo Argues We Ask These Questions Because We’ve Embraced Faulty Conception How Evolution—And Human Society—Really Works Good Enough Offers Vigorous Quasi-Monopoly Concept Natural Selection Has Idea Darwinism Excels Accounting For Evolution Traits But It Explain Their Excess Size Number Many Far Exceed Optimal Configuration To Do Job Yet Maintenance Extra Baggage Prevent Species From Thriving Millions Years Aims Give Messy Side Its Due—To Stand Up Wasteful Inefficient Organisms Nevertheless Survive Multiply He Stop At Border Between Evolutionary Theory Social Consequences Provocatively Through Acquired Trappings An Ethical System Optimization Competitiveness Innovation Have Become Watchwords Western Societies Role Lives—As Rest Nature—Is Dangerously Overrated Imperfection Just Enough: May Be Essential Survival Σελίδες: 320 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0618 Διαστάσεις: 14X14Cm