Comments on: Book review – I, Mammal: The Story of What Makes Us Mammals/2019/06/05/book-review-i-mammal-the-story-of-what-makes-us-mammals/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Tue, 05 Dec 2023 11:07:01 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – Viruses: A Natural History | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/06/05/book-review-i-mammal-the-story-of-what-makes-us-mammals/comment-page-1/#comment-87539Tue, 23 May 2023 11:56:22 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3779#comment-87539[…] However, with the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, it might just make a comeback. And for mammals to successfully form a placenta during pregnancy, they need a protein called syncytin, something for which we can thank a group of retroviruses. […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/06/05/book-review-i-mammal-the-story-of-what-makes-us-mammals/comment-page-1/#comment-49688Fri, 24 Jun 2022 11:34:06 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3779#comment-49688[…] some 100 million years, a parade of lineages evolved—archaic mammals all—piecemeal developing the traits we recognize as mammalian today: pelycosaurs with canine teeth, the first “whispers of a dental revolution” (p. 13); […]

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]]>By: Book review – A Planet of Viruses (Third Edition) | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/06/05/book-review-i-mammal-the-story-of-what-makes-us-mammals/comment-page-1/#comment-18643Wed, 31 Mar 2021 14:42:40 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3779#comment-18643[…] is found throughout the mammalian family tree. Although the placenta is one of the features that made us mammals, this is ultimately thanks to a viral […]

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]]>By: Book review – Fires of Life: Endothermy in Birds and Mammals | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/06/05/book-review-i-mammal-the-story-of-what-makes-us-mammals/comment-page-1/#comment-17497Thu, 04 Feb 2021 12:49:05 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3779#comment-17497[…] of this material was covered in a very pop-science fashion by Liam Andrew. Lovegrove’s overview goes deeper while remaining incredibly readable, although it lacks a […]

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]]>By: Book review – Fires of Life: Endothermy in Birds and Mammals | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/06/05/book-review-i-mammal-the-story-of-what-makes-us-mammals/comment-page-1/#comment-5794Thu, 19 Sep 2019 11:14:03 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3779#comment-5794[…] of this material was covered in a very pop-science fashion by Liam Andrew (see my review of I, Mammal: The Story of What Makes Us Mammals). Lovegrove’s overview goes deeper while remaining incredibly readable, although it lacks a […]

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]]>By: Book review – Discovering Retroviruses: Beacons in the Biosphere | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/06/05/book-review-i-mammal-the-story-of-what-makes-us-mammals/comment-page-1/#comment-4451Mon, 10 Jun 2019 14:39:07 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3779#comment-4451[…] Liam Drew asked the question: “what makes us mammal?” (see my previous review of I, Mammal: The Story of What Makes Us Mammals). One of his answers was: “the placenta did”. But ultimately, as Skalka shows here, […]

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