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Gould shows why a more accurate way of understanding our world is to look at a given subject within its own context, to see it as a part of a spectrum of variation and then to reconceptualize trends as expansion or contraction of this "full house" of variation, and not as the progress or degeneration of an average value, or single thing.

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斯蒂芬·杰·古尔德（Stephen Jay Gould）,当今世界上著名的进化论者,古生物学家、科学史学家和科学散文作家。1945年生于纽约,在安蒂奥克学院,哥伦比亚大学研读古生物并获博士学位。现任教于哈佛大学,并从事研究工作。主要著作有《自达尔文以来》、《熊猫的拇指》、《汉斯的牙与马的蹄》、《八头小猪》等。