Comments on: Book review – Through a Glass Brightly: Using Science to See Our Species as We Really Are/2019/09/27/book-review-through-a-glass-brightly-using-science-to-see-our-species-as-we-really-are/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Fri, 01 Dec 2023 14:59:01 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/09/27/book-review-through-a-glass-brightly-using-science-to-see-our-species-as-we-really-are/comment-page-1/#comment-91314Wed, 26 Jul 2023 11:40:42 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3647#comment-91314[…] needed for life” (p. 13) gets the arrow of causation backwards. It sounds an awful lot like the anthropic principle, the idea that the cosmos is fine-tuned for life. Instead, the idea that life is fine-tuned to […]

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]]>By: Book review – If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals about Human Stupidity | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/09/27/book-review-through-a-glass-brightly-using-science-to-see-our-species-as-we-really-are/comment-page-1/#comment-88836Tue, 13 Jun 2023 15:40:38 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3647#comment-88836[…] funny. For those who read those books or my reviews of them; in tone it is closer to Barash’s Through a Glass Brightly than to Money’s misanthropic The Selfish Ape. Even if I am critical of some finer points, […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Selfish Ape: Human Nature and Our Path to Extinction | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/09/27/book-review-through-a-glass-brightly-using-science-to-see-our-species-as-we-really-are/comment-page-1/#comment-16879Thu, 14 Jan 2021 16:35:40 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3647#comment-16879[…] just read Barash’s Through a Glass Brightly, it seemed logical to next read The Selfish Ape by biologist Nicholas P. Money. With the dustjacket […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Selfish Ape: Human Nature and Our Path to Extinction | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/09/27/book-review-through-a-glass-brightly-using-science-to-see-our-species-as-we-really-are/comment-page-1/#comment-6056Mon, 30 Sep 2019 09:41:27 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3647#comment-6056[…] just read Barash’s Through a Glass Brightly: Using Science to See Our Species as We Really Are, it seemed logical to next read The Selfish Ape by biologist Nicholas P. Money. With the dustjacket […]

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