Full House - The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin, by Stephen Jay Gould Evolution of horses, disappearance of the .400 in baseball, where are all the

Full House - The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin, by Stephen Jay Gould Evolution of horses, disappearance of the .400 in baseball, where are all the modern Geniuses, and the most integral part- the dominance of bacteria- and how evolution and the progression of entropy/ the 2nd law, does not, against most intuition, generally _lead_ to the increase of complexity, but merely _allows_ for its existence. I do disagree with him on the premise of "hot-hands," and the bit about joe dimaggio's performance being the most (statistically) outstanding in human history is also unintuitive. The book does have such a general sense of applicability though, cannot recommend it enough.