mastodon 4.7.3Dutch evolutionary biologist-turned-book reviewer. Passionate about #scicomm, https://inquisitivebiologist.com is where I review academic books on biology and other disciplines. You can support my work at https://ko-fi.com/inqbiol
Formerly at the University of Helsinki studying effect of eutrophication on sneaking behaviour of three-spined sticklebacks, now cataloguing natural history books for a specialist bookseller in Totnes, Devon, UK #biology #evolution #ecology #paleontology
New review: Beautiful in presentation and exhaustive in detail, At the Foot of the Himalayas is a technical synthesis of five decades of research on one of the world's most remarkable fossil records.
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Fossils #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Scicomm @bookstodon@a.gup.pe
This week's #NewBooks at the library: three more books from my employer's January sale
- The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush: Museums and Paleontology in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Paul D. Brinkman from the University of Chicago Press;
- Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins, a wonderfully illustrated book by John Gurche from Yale University Press;
- Rethinking Human Evolution edited by Jeffrey H. Schwartz, a volume in the Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology from @themitpress@mastodon.mit.edu.
#Fossils #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Dinosaurs #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Anthropology #HumanEvolution #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon@fedigroups.social
Today is 167 years since the death of #AlexanderVonHumboldt. This admirably concise biography offers a factual and nuanced picture of his life and work, and critically interrogates previous portrayals.
https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/02/11/book-review-alexander-von-humboldt-a-concise-biography/
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This week's #NewBooks at the library: Three more books from the January clearance sale of my employer:
- The Rise of Horses: 55 Million Years of Evolution from Johns Hopkins University Press (one I might just review in tandem with a more recent book on horse evolution. At some point.)
- Extraction to Extinction: Rethinking our Relationship with Earth's Natural Resources from @sarabandbooks@bookish.community.
- The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World from WH Allen. Somewhere there is a review series brewing about long-term thinking (no, not *that* sort of long-termism!)
#Evolution #Horses #NaturalResources #ResourceExtraction #Environmentalism #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon@fedigroups.social
Up next: sea reptiles vs. sea reptiles!
@TetZoo@sauropods.win @princetonupress@mastodon.social #Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Mosasaurs #Plesiosaurs #Ichthyosaurs #Scicomm @bookstodon@a.gup.pe
New review: The textbook to virology for those intimidated by textbooks to virology, Viruses: A Natural History is a handsomely illustrated crash course that shows viruses are not just pathogens but are fascinating in their own right.
https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2023/05/23/book-review-viruses-a-natural-history/
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Viruses #Virology #Scicomm @princetonupress@mastodon.social @princetonnature@mastodon.social @bookstodon@a.gup.pe
