Life's Grandeur The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin

A hard, even ruthless, completion of Darwinism which is, nevertheless, exhilarating and allows for future argument Melvyn Bragg The Times

"A hard, even ruthless, completion of Darwinism which is, nevertheless, exhilarating and allows for future argument" -- Melvyn Bragg The Times "Gould only enriches the texture of his writing with each successive phase-He would not be the great science writer that he is if he were not also a great humanist" -- Marek Kohn New Statesman & Society "Gould's depth and humanity fit him for Montaigne's mantle more plausibly that anyone else currently writing... Lucid, exciting, accessible" -- John Carey Sunday Times