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4.04 AVERAGE
4.04 AVERAGE
It was difficult to imagine his descriptions, which made the reading kind of boring. Maybe the audiobook wasn't the best choice here.
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What a stunning audiobook! Narrator Adetomiwa Edun, whose voice is a work of art, does a great job at keeping listeners focused and not bogged down by the dense subject matter. Paleontologist Steve Brusatte, (his review linked below) writer of some of my favorite Paleontology books lately, describes this as a book for people that love books, and it really is. Its got gorgeous descriptions, relevant quotes starting each chapter, and at some moments the detailed, lyrical writing had me forgetting it was a scientific work rather than a speculative sci fi piece examining some far off world.
For those more unfamiliar with the natural history of Earth and its geological eras (I do a lot of natural science reading and listening, what can I say, I'm a sucker for Dinosaurs), the backwards journey through Earth's history does a great job of establishing more familiar flora and fauna and using it as groundwork to introduce more 'alien' time periods. Most people know about Wooly Mammoths and its love of frosty tundra, not as many know that many popular dinos like Stegosaurus didn't even eat grass. In fact, it didn't even exist until the end of the dino's reign and wasn't a mainstay of many animals' diets as it is now!
I'm probably going to have to read this one day, alas the ebook wait is a long one, but I may just snag a physical copy.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-reverse-journey-through-geologic-time-a-tale-of-wild-horses-and-interspecies-kinship-and-more/
For those more unfamiliar with the natural history of Earth and its geological eras (I do a lot of natural science reading and listening, what can I say, I'm a sucker for Dinosaurs), the backwards journey through Earth's history does a great job of establishing more familiar flora and fauna and using it as groundwork to introduce more 'alien' time periods. Most people know about Wooly Mammoths and its love of frosty tundra, not as many know that many popular dinos like Stegosaurus didn't even eat grass. In fact, it didn't even exist until the end of the dino's reign and wasn't a mainstay of many animals' diets as it is now!
I'm probably going to have to read this one day, alas the ebook wait is a long one, but I may just snag a physical copy.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-reverse-journey-through-geologic-time-a-tale-of-wild-horses-and-interspecies-kinship-and-more/
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Parts are quite boring or difficult to picture in your mind. Also, it can't be described as informative since so much of it is based on scant evidence or he has 'gone with a competing hypothesis' not because it's the most compelling but because it's the most dramatic.
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This was a really good one, so much so that I listened to most of the audiobook when it popped into my inbox after I had already read the eBook. My only gripe is that in presenting in reverse chronological order one is kind of seeing a Memento-like approach to Earth history and one might benefit by taking in the chapters in reverse order. In spite of that it’s still such an engrossing and surprisingly intimate history of earth that covers so much ground but doesn't feel like it's necessarily skipping anything. And not solely homo sapien focused, which is a nice change.
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