Comments for The Inquisitive Biologist https://inquisitivebiologist.com Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017 Mon, 24 Aug 2020 10:22:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Book review – Extreme Conservation: Life at the Edges of the World by Book review – Owls of the Eastern Ice: The Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl | The Inquisitive Biologist https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2019/01/17/book-review-extreme-conservation-life-at-the-edges-of-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-12191 Mon, 24 Aug 2020 10:22:13 +0000 http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2975#comment-12191 […] wilderness travelogues or books such as Schaller’s Tibet Wild or Berger’s recent book Extreme Conservation, then you will devour Owls of the Eastern Ice. The fish owls are blessed to have someone like […]

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Comment on Book review – The Inside Out of Flies by Book review – The Secret Life of Flies | The Inquisitive Biologist https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2020/08/21/book-review-the-inside-out-of-flies/comment-page-1/#comment-12150 Fri, 21 Aug 2020 11:17:32 +0000 http://inquisitivebiologist.com/?p=11216#comment-12150 […] 2017 wrote the very successful The Secret Life of Flies. In preparation for reviewing her new book The Inside Out of Flies, I (finally) read the book that started it all to see what the buzz was all […]

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Comment on Book review – Eyes to See: The Astonishing Variety of Vision in Nature by Book review – The Inside Out of Flies | The Inquisitive Biologist https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2018/11/16/book-review-eyes-to-see-the-astonishing-variety-of-vision-in-nature/comment-page-1/#comment-12149 Fri, 21 Aug 2020 10:53:32 +0000 http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2449#comment-12149 […] with micro-CT scanning. The structure and function of the individual ommatidia that make up the compound eyes of insects. The flight mechanics in the thorax that allow flies to beat their wings at such high frequencies. […]

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Comment on Book review – The Secret Life of Flies by Book review – The Inside Out of Flies | The Inquisitive Biologist https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2020/08/19/book-review-the-secret-life-of-flies/comment-page-1/#comment-12148 Fri, 21 Aug 2020 10:53:29 +0000 http://inquisitivebiologist.com/?p=11196#comment-12148 […] previously explored the different lifestyles of flies with her very successful book The Secret Life of Flies. Now she returns with The Inside Out of Flies in which she marvels at their anatomy. After an […]

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Comment on Book review – The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator by Book review – The Inside Out of Flies | The Inquisitive Biologist https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2020/01/20/book-review-the-mosquito-a-human-history-of-our-deadliest-predator/comment-page-1/#comment-12147 Fri, 21 Aug 2020 10:52:48 +0000 http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=4699#comment-12147 […] to corpses, do not endear them to us. Add to that that the order Diptera also hosts mosquitoes, called our deadliest predator by some authors, and you can begin to see why. Entomologist Erica McAlister, the senior curator for Diptera at the […]

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Comment on Book review – The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions by Book review – Fire in the Sky: Cosmic Collisions, Killer Asteroids, and the Race to Defend Earth | The Inquisitive Biologist https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2017/10/05/book-review-the-ends-of-the-world-volcanic-apocalypses-lethal-oceans-and-our-quest-to-understand-earths-past-mass-extinctions/comment-page-1/#comment-12074 Tue, 18 Aug 2020 12:07:08 +0000 http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=681#comment-12074 […] of the dust kicked up by the famous 1980 Alvarez et al. Science paper that proposed the Cretaceous ended with a bang. And while scientists were busy arguing, Shoemaker discovered an asteroid on a […]

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Comment on Book review – Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences: From Heresy to Truth by Book review – Fire in the Sky: Cosmic Collisions, Killer Asteroids, and the Race to Defend Earth | The Inquisitive Biologist https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2018/03/12/book-review-four-revolutions-in-the-earth-sciences-from-heresy-to-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-12073 Tue, 18 Aug 2020 12:07:05 +0000 http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1568#comment-12073 […] recurrent theme in this book is the reticence of the geological establishment to accept the impact theory. Despite mounting evidence, volcanism remained the preferred […]

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Comment on Book review – Cataclysms: A New Geology for the Twenty-First Century by Book review – Fire in the Sky: Cosmic Collisions, Killer Asteroids, and the Race to Defend Earth | The Inquisitive Biologist https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2017/10/09/book-review-cataclysms-a-new-geology-for-the-twenty-first-century/comment-page-1/#comment-12072 Tue, 18 Aug 2020 12:07:03 +0000 http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=887#comment-12072 […] academic establishment did not. They were still held in thrall by the geological doctrine of uniformitarianism, which held that changes on Earth happened gradually through known processes. When the famous […]

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Comment on Book review – Cosmic Impact: Understanding the Threat to Earth from Asteroids and Comets by Book review – Fire in the Sky: Cosmic Collisions, Killer Asteroids, and the Race to Defend Earth | The Inquisitive Biologist https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2019/04/18/book-review-cosmic-impact-understanding-the-threat-to-earth-from-asteroids-and-comets/comment-page-1/#comment-12071 Tue, 18 Aug 2020 12:07:00 +0000 http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3460#comment-12071 […] you have too many books on the same topic? Not four months after the publication of Cosmic Impact in February 2019, which I reviewed earlier this year, Scribner books published Fire in the Sky in […]

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Comment on Book review – The Tectonic Plates are Moving! by Book review – Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean | The Inquisitive Biologist https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2018/09/10/book-review-the-tectonic-plates-are-moving/comment-page-1/#comment-12055 Mon, 17 Aug 2020 19:23:58 +0000 http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2156#comment-12055 […] of Marie Tharp). These efforts revealed the existence of mid-ocean ridges that helped the theory of plate tectonics finally find wide […]

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