Comments on: Book review – The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us/2022/06/24/book-review-the-rise-and-reign-of-the-mammals-a-new-history-from-the-shadow-of-the-dinosaurs-to-us/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:49:16 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – The Age of Mammals: Nature, Development, & Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century | The Inquisitive Biologist/2022/06/24/book-review-the-rise-and-reign-of-the-mammals-a-new-history-from-the-shadow-of-the-dinosaurs-to-us/comment-page-1/#comment-93661Fri, 01 Sep 2023 16:20:37 +0000/?p=17825#comment-93661[…] more modern, but is still not quite right; Panciroli’s Beasts Before Us and Brusatte’s The Rise and Reign of the Mammals will set you straight on our current understanding of mammal evolution.) It became increasingly […]

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]]>By: Year list – The Inquisitive Biologist’s top 5 reads of 2022 | The Inquisitive Biologist/2022/06/24/book-review-the-rise-and-reign-of-the-mammals-a-new-history-from-the-shadow-of-the-dinosaurs-to-us/comment-page-1/#comment-71832Sat, 31 Dec 2022 12:35:48 +0000/?p=17825#comment-71832[…] kills me. I prematurely awarded Steve Brusatte a place in my top 5 for his fantastic The Rise and Reign of the Mammals but Thomas Halliday’s debut with publisher Allen Lane, Otherlands, inched him out. The awards […]

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]]>By: Book review – From Extraterrestrials to Animal Minds: Six Myths of Evolution | The Inquisitive Biologist/2022/06/24/book-review-the-rise-and-reign-of-the-mammals-a-new-history-from-the-shadow-of-the-dinosaurs-to-us/comment-page-1/#comment-52034Sat, 17 Sep 2022 11:23:06 +0000/?p=17825#comment-52034[…] misses and then marvelling at the route evolution took to get here. Several recent books discussing early mammal evolution show a younger generation of scientists be more accurate but no less poetic in their metaphors. […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity | The Inquisitive Biologist/2022/06/24/book-review-the-rise-and-reign-of-the-mammals-a-new-history-from-the-shadow-of-the-dinosaurs-to-us/comment-page-1/#comment-50186Wed, 13 Jul 2022 09:30:08 +0000/?p=17825#comment-50186[…] of human development were not “proper” history, I see parallels with what Panciroli and Brusatte have written about “archaic” mammal groups that went extinct: these were not failures […]

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]]>By: inquisitivebiologist/2022/06/24/book-review-the-rise-and-reign-of-the-mammals-a-new-history-from-the-shadow-of-the-dinosaurs-to-us/comment-page-1/#comment-49707Fri, 24 Jun 2022 18:56:08 +0000/?p=17825#comment-49707In reply to Jeroen Admiraal.

Oh nice, I’ll check that out!

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]]>By: Jeroen Admiraal/2022/06/24/book-review-the-rise-and-reign-of-the-mammals-a-new-history-from-the-shadow-of-the-dinosaurs-to-us/comment-page-1/#comment-49706Fri, 24 Jun 2022 18:37:59 +0000/?p=17825#comment-49706In reply to inquisitivebiologist.

I also recently finished Contingency and Convergence and wrote a post about it. Thanks for the reviews!

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]]>By: inquisitivebiologist/2022/06/24/book-review-the-rise-and-reign-of-the-mammals-a-new-history-from-the-shadow-of-the-dinosaurs-to-us/comment-page-1/#comment-49705Fri, 24 Jun 2022 18:36:45 +0000/?p=17825#comment-49705In reply to Jeroen Admiraal.

Oh dear, I have created a monster…

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]]>By: Jeroen Admiraal/2022/06/24/book-review-the-rise-and-reign-of-the-mammals-a-new-history-from-the-shadow-of-the-dinosaurs-to-us/comment-page-1/#comment-49704Fri, 24 Jun 2022 18:30:02 +0000/?p=17825#comment-49704In reply to bormgans.

I ordered it too, even though I said that I’m not reading non fiction anymore.

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]]>By: inquisitivebiologist/2022/06/24/book-review-the-rise-and-reign-of-the-mammals-a-new-history-from-the-shadow-of-the-dinosaurs-to-us/comment-page-1/#comment-49702Fri, 24 Jun 2022 18:04:06 +0000/?p=17825#comment-49702In reply to bormgans.

Thanks! Hope you’ll enjoy it 🙂

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]]>By: bormgans/2022/06/24/book-review-the-rise-and-reign-of-the-mammals-a-new-history-from-the-shadow-of-the-dinosaurs-to-us/comment-page-1/#comment-49701Fri, 24 Jun 2022 17:46:43 +0000/?p=17825#comment-49701Thanks, ordered this!

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