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There are quite a few nuggets i walked away with, from learning where the hammer and anvil were originally formed from, to learning how secretly guarded fossil finds were.
Brusatte's new book is a must-read for anyone interested in paleontology. The author explains how mammals survived the meteor that killed off most of the dinosaurs. He warns us about the accelerating rate of extinction of mammal species.
Very well researched and informative. Covers a lot of territory.
Cons
The book is unintellible. Almost every sentence is bungled. The one and only timeline of mammals is of use only for high level orientation. Modern * sapiens, still to these days, is not able to accept a complete gender equality.
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This book dealing with the origin of the mammals written by the author of the rise and fall of the dinosaurs is a work on a fas... Read More
Then with the big guys out of the way it was our world to dominate
Word of caution i would do it with the internet close by as i found myself looking up a lot of the names animals and paleontolo... Read More
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Moreover it was quite a surprise to learn that early mammals who moved in a slouch did so due to their having been in a stuporous condition page 222
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In composing a grand narrative it does an excellent job but the scope of the topic clearly escapes the grasp of this book to handle on anything but a fairly superficial level
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In particular this book is almost entirely text with only occasional pictures of fossil skeletons or artistic renditions of extinct animals
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Critically there are no cladograms to outline relationships between the various groups and there are hardly any diagrams of the critical developments in dentition that characterize the mechanistic understanding of mammal evolution
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The result is that many of the organisms and groups mentioned are no more than names
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Overall this book tells a very intriguing story regarding the evolution of mammals but fails to teach the reader beyond a rather basic outline
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An even better location would have been right inside the book’s cover
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Somewhere on the schematic it would have helped to specify “mya” for millions of years ago
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