Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin Audiobook (Unabridged)

" A true work of genious by one of the great masters. Who else could thoroughly explain evolution and baseball all in the same book? Very sad he is no longer with us. "

" His writing is so clear. He is somewhat repetitive about his thesis, but his facts are still identifiable for non-scientists. His thesis seems to support diversity. "

" Explains more than you would like to admit. "

" In the prologue Gould promises that this is a short book. It is not short enough. All the arguments and evidence could have been thoroughly covered in a few pages. The book is full of repetition and harping, harping, harping on the same thing. It should have been an article, not a book. But he's right, and I suppose a book reaches a wider and more lay audience than an article. Still, I could have used less baseball and lot less patting himself on the back. "

" Gould is pissed that Creationism is taken seriously and he is Darwin's great defender (next to Huxley). "

" Good for people who want to see evolution as a tool of humanity. "

" Excellent discussions of statistics... I even liked the part about baseball, and I'm not a fan! "

" Covering an interesting array of topics from baseball to religion and evolution all in the context of the excellence of the human mind. "

" Such is the talent of Gould as a writer and thinker that even though a quarter of this book is about baseball, I found it compelling and enlightening nonetheless. "

" What a wonderful book, full of great insights and logic. A pleasure to read! "

" Stephen Jay Gould is reportedly the genius that geniuses read; you're going to need that kind of intellectual horsepower to make sense of this thing. "

" Basically a 200-page semantic argument about whether we should say life on earth has become more complex. Answer: yes if we talk about the mean organism, no if we talk about the modal organism. There, that was easy. "

" An expansive book, even as an adult I know this pushed my "readers' level." Its not a book to be hurried through with complex ideas and complex language but definitely a book that makes you think, that makes you enjoy the process of getting through a book. "

" From baseball to the origins of life Gould changed the way I looked at sports and the world around me. "

" Well argued logic with plenty of examples in ecology and paleontology about why variety really is the spice of life. Good follow up to Wonderful Life and reassessment of assumptions we make about Darwinism. "

" Always thought provoking and interesting as Gould's essays are, this book was a delight. "

" boring; could not get through "

" That the largest organisms on earth are probably fungi and that there will never be another batter to hit 400 in major league baseball "

" His writing is so clear. He is somewhat repetitive about his thesis, but his facts are still identifiable for non-scientists. His thesis seems to support diversity. "

" An expansive book, even as an adult I know this pushed my "readers' level." Its not a book to be hurried through with complex ideas and complex language but definitely a book that makes you think, that makes you enjoy the process of getting through a book. "

" That the largest organisms on earth are probably fungi and that there will never be another batter to hit 400 in major league baseball "

" Always thought provoking and interesting as Gould's essays are, this book was a delight. "

" Basically a 200-page semantic argument about whether we should say life on earth has become more complex. Answer: yes if we talk about the mean organism, no if we talk about the modal organism. There, that was easy. "

" Explains more than you would like to admit. "

" Stephen Jay Gould is reportedly the genius that geniuses read; you're going to need that kind of intellectual horsepower to make sense of this thing. "

" A good book with a lot of valuable information. I think that Gould goes on far longer than necessary to make his point, but it's understandable since it goes against traditional thinking, and I imagine he's had to fight quite a bit to promote this concept at all. "

" Well argued logic with plenty of examples in ecology and paleontology about why variety really is the spice of life. Good follow up to Wonderful Life and reassessment of assumptions we make about Darwinism. "

" Excellent discussions of statistics... I even liked the part about baseball, and I'm not a fan! "

" Covering an interesting array of topics from baseball to religion and evolution all in the context of the excellence of the human mind. "

" What a wonderful book, full of great insights and logic. A pleasure to read! "