Comments on: Book review – Discovering the Mammoth: A Tale of Giants, Unicorns, Ivory, and the Birth of a New Science/2017/10/02/book-review-discovering-the-mammoth-a-tale-of-giants-unicorns-ivory-and-the-birth-of-a-new-science/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Fri, 01 Sep 2023 16:20:39 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – The Age of Mammals: Nature, Development, & Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century | The Inquisitive Biologist/2017/10/02/book-review-discovering-the-mammoth-a-tale-of-giants-unicorns-ivory-and-the-birth-of-a-new-science/comment-page-1/#comment-93662Fri, 01 Sep 2023 16:20:39 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=373#comment-93662[…] of progress. Though no plausible mechanism was yet known, the discovery of fossil mammals such as mammoths left no doubt that there had been an ice age, though scholars argued whether there had been one or […]

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]]>By: Book review – Too Big to Walk: The New Science of Dinosaurs | The Inquisitive Biologist/2017/10/02/book-review-discovering-the-mammoth-a-tale-of-giants-unicorns-ivory-and-the-birth-of-a-new-science/comment-page-1/#comment-805Mon, 25 Jun 2018 13:26:17 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=373#comment-805[…] The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths and Myth in Greek and Roman Times, and McKay’s Discovering the Mammoth: A Tale of Giants, Unicorns, Ivory, and the Birth of a New Science. Yes, Darwin stood on the shoulders of giants, something acknowledged already in his own time, see […]

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]]>By: Book review – Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past | The Inquisitive Biologist/2017/10/02/book-review-discovering-the-mammoth-a-tale-of-giants-unicorns-ivory-and-the-birth-of-a-new-science/comment-page-1/#comment-670Tue, 01 May 2018 09:36:21 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=373#comment-670[…] good use of timelines and maps. I have been moaning previously that many books give you nothing (Discovering the Mammoth for example), or give you figures that are hard to read (the otherwise superlative The Fate of […]

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]]>By: Book review – Patrons of Paleontology: How Government Support Shaped a Science | The Inquisitive Biologist/2017/10/02/book-review-discovering-the-mammoth-a-tale-of-giants-unicorns-ivory-and-the-birth-of-a-new-science/comment-page-1/#comment-44Thu, 07 Dec 2017 13:42:19 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=373#comment-44[…] palaeontologists and their discoveries. How I wish she had! As I also remarked in my review of Discovering the Mammoth, for the average reader like myself it is easy to get lost in the flurry of names and dates. The […]

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