Good enough the tolerance for mediocrity in nature and society
Why is the genome of a salamander forty times larger than that of a human? Why does the avocado tree produce a million flowers and only a hundred fruits? Why, in short, is there so much waste in nature? In this lively and wide-ranging meditation on the curious accidents and unexpected detours on the...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
Harvard University Press,
2019.
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| Online Access: | https://www.lib.tsu.ru/mminfo/2023/EBSCO/2103685.pdf |
Table of Contents:
- Part one. Icons as test cases
- The giraffe : science begins in wonder
- The domestication analogy : Darwin's original sin
- The Galápagos and the finch : two unrepresentative icons
- The brain : our ancestors' worst enemy
- Part two. The theory of the good enough
- Embracing neutrality
- Strange ranges : the bias toward excess
- Nature's safety net
- Part three. Our triumph and its side effects
- The invention of tomorrow
- Humanity's safety net
- The excellence conspiracy : critique of evolutionary ethics.