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4.04 AVERAGE
4.04 AVERAGE
really really interesting but i was just reading it so slowly !!! hopefully i'll pick it up again !!! i'm a one-book-at-a-time kind of person, and this was just stopping me from reading this summer :(
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Everything I wanted regarding evolution condensed into an adored book filled to the brim with golden imagery of worlds we will not see. A book where science (specifically paleontology meets literature) which speaks its own excellence. Thomas Halliday, the man you are. Rekindled my slumber with biology and echoes the beauty of nature with a hopeful and wise epilogue on the future as learnt from the past. Worlds of my favourite subjects collide in perfect order in this book, I cannot ask for more and I won't.
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Just an all around informative read. I have always been interested in the evolution of our planet and the flora and fauna that have come and gone before us, so this one appealed to me from the get go. Halliday assigns one chapter for each period and epoch, starting with the most recent and working back to the Ediacaran epoch, which was roughly 500 million years from the present. Clean, straight forward prose helps the reader to not feel overwhelmed with the amount of information that Halliday passes along. I recommend reading the book rather than listening to the audio, as the maps are helpful and you'll want to see how to spell these animal names so you can google them as you read.
Solid four stars.
Solid four stars.
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Mind-bogglingly brilliant. Took me a while to get through - if like me you're not educated in palaeontology it is pretty heavy, but it's worth the effort.
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I found this difficult to engage with, despite being lovely descriptions. I think I found the difficulty of not really knowing anything about the creatures themselves too much to relate to the writing itself. Honestly, the chapters I enjoyed the most were the ones closest to the beginning of time, where everything was a sea blob.
Also it took me ages to work out it was going back in time, due to the chapter headings not initially using a standardised metric for years/scale.
Also it took me ages to work out it was going back in time, due to the chapter headings not initially using a standardised metric for years/scale.
informative
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medium-paced