Comments on: Book review – Too Big to Walk: The New Science of Dinosaurs/2018/06/25/book-review-too-big-to-walk-the-new-science-of-dinosaurs/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:30:59 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/06/25/book-review-too-big-to-walk-the-new-science-of-dinosaurs/comment-page-1/#comment-94566Mon, 09 Oct 2023 14:33:04 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1833#comment-94566[…] the proverbial 99 others who were stubborn, misguided, wrong, or delusional (do I need to mention Brian Ford again?). Obviously, this is a balancing exercise between, on the one hand, remaining sceptical and […]

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]]>By: Book review – Fires of Life: Endothermy in Birds and Mammals | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/06/25/book-review-too-big-to-walk-the-new-science-of-dinosaurs/comment-page-1/#comment-17500Thu, 04 Feb 2021 12:49:14 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1833#comment-17500[…] an impossibly high blood pressure. Brian J. Ford also referenced Seymour’s work, although the hysterical tone of his book pretty much excludes it from serious discourse for me. But it does show that Ford did not dream it […]

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]]>By: Lewis/2018/06/25/book-review-too-big-to-walk-the-new-science-of-dinosaurs/comment-page-1/#comment-14462Wed, 11 Nov 2020 19:30:39 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1833#comment-14462I mostly read non fiction. About 10 pages into this book I had the feeling that it was written like a tabloid newspaper article and that the author was pointing out things I leaned at high school (which had nothing to do with dinosaurs) and passing it off as some new revelation that he alone had (everyone with a passing interest in Darwin and evolution knows that Darwin didn’t use the term “survival of the fittest”…what was his point?) thanks for the links to some good dinosaur books- I’ll check them out.

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]]>By: Book review – American Dinosaur Abroad: A Cultural History of Carnegie’s Plaster Diplodocus | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/06/25/book-review-too-big-to-walk-the-new-science-of-dinosaurs/comment-page-1/#comment-7253Tue, 10 Dec 2019 15:03:21 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1833#comment-7253[…] idea of sauropods living an aquatic lifestyle was seriously, though not universally, considered. Despite what some seem to think, that idea has now been thoroughly […]

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]]>By: Book review – Fires of Life: Endothermy in Birds and Mammals | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/06/25/book-review-too-big-to-walk-the-new-science-of-dinosaurs/comment-page-1/#comment-5797Thu, 19 Sep 2019 11:14:08 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1833#comment-5797[…] hysterical tone of his book pretty much excludes it from serious discourse for me (see my review of Too Big to Walk: The New Science of Dinosaurs). But it does show that Ford did not dream it up in a vacuum. There are scientists willing to go on […]

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]]>By: Links 6/26/18 | Mike the Mad Biologist/2018/06/25/book-review-too-big-to-walk-the-new-science-of-dinosaurs/comment-page-1/#comment-809Tue, 26 Jun 2018 20:44:58 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1833#comment-809[…] problem that people are much more concerned at a visceral level about social and economic issues) Book review – Too Big to Walk: The New Science of Dinosaurs A Prophet of Doom Was Right About the […]

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