Good Enough Audiobook (Free)

How come the genome of the salamander forty times larger than that of a human being? Why does the avocado tree produce a million flowers and only 100 fruits? Why, in short, is there a lot waste in nature? In this energetic and wide-ranging meditation on the wondering accidents and unpredicted detours on the road of life, Daniel Milo argues that people ask these questions because we’ve embraced a faulty conception of how advancement?and individual society?really works. Good Enough presents a strenuous critique from the about SUFFICIENT quasi-monopoly that Darwin’s idea of natural selection is wearing our notion of the natural world. Darwinism excels in accounting for the progression of traits, nonetheless it does not explain their excess in size and quantity. Many traits significantly exceed the perfect configuration to do the job, yet the maintenance of the extra baggage does not prevent varieties from thriving for an incredible number of years. Philosopher Daniel Milo seeks to give the messy part of nature its due?to stand up for the wasteful and inefficient microorganisms that however survive and multiply. But he does not stop at the boundary between evolutionary theory and its own social outcomes. He argues provocatively that the theory of advancement through natural selection has acquired the trappings of an ethical program. Optimization, competitiveness, and development have become the watchwords of Western societies, however their function in human lives?such as the rest of nature?can be dangerously overrated. Imperfection isn’t just good enough: it may at times be essential to survival.