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Life's Grandeur: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin.
by Gould, Stephen Jay
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0224041320
- ISBN 13
- 9780224041324
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1996. 1st U.K. ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good plus condition (in good plus dustjacket), figures (including drawings), minimal edgewear. 244 pp. The noted zoologist argues that progress and increasing complexity are not inevitable features of the evolution of life on Earth. This book states that if we wish to see grandeur in life, we must discard our selfish and anthropocentric view of evolution and learn to see it as Darwin did, as the unfathomably rich source of 'endless forms most beautiful and wonderful'.
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3658
- Title
- Life's Grandeur: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin.
- Author
- Gould, Stephen Jay
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st U.K. ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0224041320
- ISBN 13
- 9780224041324
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- biosciences, biology, evolution, nature, animals, first edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- BIOSCIENCES & BIOLOGY;
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Bookhome Sydney
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About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
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Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
Friendly family-owned internet bookshop located in Sydney's inner west. Selling books since 1998 (online since 2000). A broad range of quality secondhand and antiquarian books, particularly Australian history and society (Australiana), psychology, health, animals/pets, environment, science, religion, books for children. Mostly nonfiction.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...