Comments on: Book review – The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks: Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them/2019/05/31/book-review-the-story-of-the-earth-in-25-rocks-tales-of-important-geological-puzzles-and-the-people-who-solved-them/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Thu, 21 Nov 2024 03:54:40 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: The Story Of Earth’s Climate In 25 Discoveries: How Scientists Found The Connections Between Climate And Life/2019/05/31/book-review-the-story-of-the-earth-in-25-rocks-tales-of-important-geological-puzzles-and-the-people-who-solved-them/comment-page-1/#comment-95128Thu, 21 Nov 2024 03:54:40 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3565#comment-95128[…] series by palaeontologist and geologist Donald R. Prothero. After four previous books on fossils, rocks, dinosaurs, and evolution—I reviewed the last three (mostly) positively—Prothero now turns to […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Story of Earth’s Climate in 25 Discoveries: How Scientists Found the Connections Between Climate and Life | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/05/31/book-review-the-story-of-the-earth-in-25-rocks-tales-of-important-geological-puzzles-and-the-people-who-solved-them/comment-page-1/#comment-95110Fri, 08 Nov 2024 11:42:35 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3565#comment-95110[…] series by palaeontologist and geologist Donald R. Prothero. After four previous books on fossils, rocks, dinosaurs, and evolution—I reviewed the last three (mostly) positively—Prothero now turns to […]

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]]>By: Book review – Mysteries of the Deep: How Seafloor Drilling Expeditions Revolutionized Our Understanding of Earth History | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/05/31/book-review-the-story-of-the-earth-in-25-rocks-tales-of-important-geological-puzzles-and-the-people-who-solved-them/comment-page-1/#comment-94999Thu, 15 Aug 2024 15:24:32 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3565#comment-94999[…] in time. There are one or two chapters that can get quite technical. Although I am familiar with Milankovitch cycles (another topic where Powell adds a nice science history angle), the chapter discussing the […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries: The Evidence and the People Who Found It | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/05/31/book-review-the-story-of-the-earth-in-25-rocks-tales-of-important-geological-puzzles-and-the-people-who-solved-them/comment-page-1/#comment-24234Wed, 11 Aug 2021 15:41:55 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3565#comment-24234[…] three previous books in this format on fossils, rocks, and dinosaurs, geologist and palaeontologist Donald R. Prothero here tackles the story of […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/05/31/book-review-the-story-of-the-earth-in-25-rocks-tales-of-important-geological-puzzles-and-the-people-who-solved-them/comment-page-1/#comment-18139Wed, 10 Mar 2021 12:42:19 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3565#comment-18139[…] as a uniquely human strategy to run prey to exhaustion, palaeoclimatology and the mechanism of the Milankovitch cycles, the spread of Homo erectus around the globe (the Out of Africa I hypothesis), and the use of […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Story of the Dinosaurs in 25 Discoveries: Amazing Fossils and the People Who Found Them | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/05/31/book-review-the-story-of-the-earth-in-25-rocks-tales-of-important-geological-puzzles-and-the-people-who-solved-them/comment-page-1/#comment-7702Mon, 27 Jan 2020 12:09:41 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3565#comment-7702[…] returns to Columbia University Press for the third book in this format. Having covered fossils and rocks, he now serves up 25 fascinating vignettes of famous dinosaurs and the people who discovered […]

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