Comments on: Book review – Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods/2018/01/18/book-review-squid-empire-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-cephalopods/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Thu, 01 Jun 2023 10:00:01 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – The Earth: A Biography of Life | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/01/18/book-review-squid-empire-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-cephalopods/comment-page-1/#comment-50312Fri, 22 Jul 2022 09:31:10 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1422#comment-50312[…] of the usual suspects; after all, no self-respecting earth biography could do without trilobites, ammonites, or Archaeopteryx. More interesting are the lesser-known representatives of some of life’s […]

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]]>By: Book review – Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/01/18/book-review-squid-empire-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-cephalopods/comment-page-1/#comment-15702Sat, 05 Dec 2020 15:25:29 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1422#comment-15702[…] story here, which allowed Danna Staaf in 2017 to complete that picture with her magnificent book Squid Empire. What he is interested in is what the development of such utterly flexible bodies meant for brain […]

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]]>By: Book review – Convergent Evolution on Earth: Lessons for the Search for Extraterrestrial Life | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/01/18/book-review-squid-empire-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-cephalopods/comment-page-1/#comment-14853Mon, 16 Nov 2020 11:14:40 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1422#comment-14853[…] me smile, as it reminded me of Danna Staaf’s discussion of this phenomenon in her excellent Monarchs of the Sea). And the convergent evolution of fundamental organ systems (e.g. nerves, muscles, or immune […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Oceans: A Deep History | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/01/18/book-review-squid-empire-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-cephalopods/comment-page-1/#comment-13706Tue, 20 Oct 2020 14:25:12 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1422#comment-13706[…] oceanic acidity. The Ammonoids, the now-extinct group of cephalopods that we met in Staaf’s Monarchs of the Sea, was one group that was heavily hit during the end-Permian extinction […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Oceans: A Deep History | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/01/18/book-review-squid-empire-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-cephalopods/comment-page-1/#comment-739Thu, 31 May 2018 10:11:34 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1422#comment-739[…] oceanic acidity. The Ammonoids, the now-extinct group of cephalopods that we met in Staaf’s Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods, was one group that was heavily hit during the end-Permian extinction […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/01/18/book-review-squid-empire-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-cephalopods/comment-page-1/#comment-684Fri, 04 May 2018 09:04:11 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1422#comment-684[…] has for his profession virtually drips off every page. I used this phrase before when reviewing Squid Empire, and it applies here: this book is fiendishly readable – I tore through it in just two evenings. […]

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