Good Enough English Literature one in which humanity emerges

one in which humanity emerges bloody but unbowed—and in which those of us who are prepared can make the most of the Anthropocene

—ANDY IMPARATO

Having driven home for the holidays after losing her boyfriend

a literary dialect of classical Hindi

Good Enough English Literature one in which humanity emergesIn this spirited and irreverent critique of Darwin's long hold over our imagination, a distinguished philosopher of science makes the case that, in culture as well as nature, not only the fittest survive: the world is full of the "good enough" that persist too. 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