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Book review – Ancient Bones: Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We...
7-minute read Where do humanity’s evolutionary roots lie? The answer has long been “in Africa”, but this idea is being challenged from various sides. I previously reviewed Begun’s The Real Planet of...
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Book review – Lessons from Plants
6-minute read Plants are so drastically different from us mobile mammals that we struggle to fully grasp them. With Lessons from Plants, Beronda L. Montgomery, who is the MSU Foundation Professor of...
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Book review – Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution
7-minute read Given that we are nothing but mammals, it is perhaps understandable that humans are rather mammal-centric, something that conservation organisations capitalise on. But where palaeontology...
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Book review – The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth...
6-minute read Can we predict what aliens will look like? On some level, no, which has given science fiction writers the liberty to let their imagination run wild. On another level, yes, writes...
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Book review – The Science of Middle-Earth: A New Understanding of Tolkien and...
7-minute read I will make no secret of my love of J.R.R. Tolkien’s works. Equally, I am always entertained by books looking at the science behind fictional worlds depicted in books, movies, and TV...
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Book review – Life Changing: How Humans Are Altering Life on Earth
7-minute read Ever since humans appeared on the scene, we have been altering life on Earth. Where once our actions could be considered part of nature’s fabric, our influence has become outsized and our...
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Book review – Fossilization: Understanding the Material Nature of Ancient...
6-minute read Fossils are our prime source of information about life in the past. As I delve deeper into palaeontology and earth sciences, the process of fossilisation increasingly fascinates me. How...
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Book review – Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse
8-minute read I remember, some years ago, the news headlines of an impending insect mass extinction. But I similarly remember pushback against the term “insect apocalypse”. When the publisher Jonathan...
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Book review – The Incredible Journey of Plants
5-minute readkeywords: botany Italian plant neurobiologist (yes, this is a thing) Stefano Mancuso previously impressed me with The Revolutionary Genius of Plants. With The Incredible Journey of Plants,...
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Book review – Tropical Arctic: Lost Plants, Future Climates, and the...
7-minute readkeywords: paleobotany, paleontology Greenland’s name might be considered one of history’s great ironies, apparently part of a cunning plan to attract Viking settlers. The locals simply...
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