Comments on: Book review – Convergent Evolution on Earth: Lessons for the Search for Extraterrestrial Life/2020/11/16/book-review-convergent-evolution-on-earth-lessons-for-the-search-for-extraterrestrial-life/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Sat, 08 Feb 2025 20:28:12 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/11/16/book-review-convergent-evolution-on-earth-lessons-for-the-search-for-extraterrestrial-life/comment-page-1/#comment-21073Wed, 30 Jun 2021 16:19:41 +0000/?p=10302#comment-21073[…] Convergent evolution can hold lessons for astrobiology, though George R. McGhee’s book Convergent Evolution on Earth did not quite deliver on its promise to do so. Kershenbaum, however, does. There is no reason to […]

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]]>By: Book review – Contingency and Convergence: Toward a Cosmic Biology of Body and Mind | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/11/16/book-review-convergent-evolution-on-earth-lessons-for-the-search-for-extraterrestrial-life/comment-page-1/#comment-14974Fri, 20 Nov 2020 09:52:20 +0000/?p=10302#comment-14974[…] of our Sun, and the problem of the observer selection effect. Where I found the previously reviewed Convergent Evolution on Earth lacking in its lessons for astrobiology, Powell engages with this topic in a far more thorough […]

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]]>By: Book review – Convergent Evolution: Limited Forms Most Beautiful | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/11/16/book-review-convergent-evolution-on-earth-lessons-for-the-search-for-extraterrestrial-life/comment-page-1/#comment-14855Mon, 16 Nov 2020 11:26:03 +0000/?p=10302#comment-14855[…] this blog and is a topic I keep returning to. MIT Press recently published two further books on it, Convergent Evolution on Earth in 2019 and Contingency and Convergence in 2020. I felt the time was ripe to finally read their […]

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