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Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
Therians and multituberculates were ensconced in the north, from the Asian heartlands to the North American mountains to the European islands. Among them were insectivores that demolished bugs with their tribosphenic teeth (eutherians), herbivores that feasted on flowers and fruits and other angiosperm parts (multituberculates), and the odd carnivo
... See moreSteve Brusatte • The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
Mistaken as he may have been about evolution, he was by no means alone.
David McCullough • Brave Companions
a supposed designer of our biosphere will seem not only morally deficient, but intellectually unremarkable.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
“Something marvelous is happening underground, something we’re just starting to learn how to see.”
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
In Paris later, at the Museum of Natural History (the Jardin des Plantes), with the blessing and counsel of the great Georges Cuvier, he undertook his vast, illustrated Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles, at a time when fewer than a dozen generic types of fossil fish had been named and he was all of twenty-four.
David McCullough • Brave Companions
they don’t know what could be the evolutionary benefit of such a phenomenon.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
when the upper and lower molars bit together, they could shear and grind at the same time.