Comments on: Book review – Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution

By: Book review – The Future of Dinosaurs: What We Don’t Know, What We Can, and What We’ll Never Know | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:51:58 +0000

[…] of dinosaurs on their biology and ecology. Dinosaurs never evolved to be rodent-size small; as Elsa Panciroli discussed, mammals occupied that ecological niche. Furthermore, independent of their adult size, […]

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By: Book review – Cro-Magnon: The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:52:03 +0000

[…] to add flavour, his writing is not nearly as evocative as that of for instance Rebecca Wragg Sykes, Elsa Panciroli, or Thomas […]

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By: Book review – The Age of Mammals: Nature, Development, & Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 01 Sep 2023 16:20:35 +0000

[…] instead? (That already starts sounding 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 […]

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By: Book review – From Extraterrestrials to Animal Minds: Six Myths of Evolution | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sat, 17 Sep 2022 11:23:03 +0000

[…] hits and ignoring the 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 […]

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By: Book review – The Earth: A Biography of Life | The Inquisitive Biologist

Book review – The Earth: A Biography of Life | The Inquisitive Biologist — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 09:31:32 +0000

[…] previously impressed me with her debut Beasts Before Us which covered the evolution of early mammals. The current book is, in some ways, a more challenging […]

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By: Book review – The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 13 Jul 2022 09:30:05 +0000

[…] centuries 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 […]

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By: Book review – The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 24 Jun 2022 11:34:33 +0000

[…] you might be left wondering how this book compares to Elsa Panciroli’s Beasts Before Us which covered early mammal evolution up to the K–Pg extinction. There is overlap here in more […]

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By: Book review – The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 11:15:11 +0000

[…] happened with the mammals. Black prominently mentions the idea that Elsa Panciroli promoted in Beasts Before Us, that “it was competition between mammals that limited the number of different forms and […]

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By: Book review – Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World – and Us | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 20 Apr 2022 13:22:33 +0000

[…] one paper puts it plainly, the plant fossil record reflects just two great extinction events. And mammal evolution saw two radiations well before the dinosaurs went extinct, the first linked to Jurassic […]

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By: Book review – Otherlands: A World in the Making | The Inquisitive Biologist

Book review – Otherlands: A World in the Making | The Inquisitive Biologist — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 12:39:51 +0000

[…] do not know what they feed Scottish palaeontologists, but I was reminded of Elsa Panciroli’s Beasts Before Us. (This might not be a coincidence, she is prominently acknowledged for inspiring him to participate […]

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