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A carregar... The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us (2022)por Stephen L. Brusatte
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I loved the Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, and this was just as good. Brusatte knows how to map out a good book about a complex and vast topic so that you never get lost in the weeds. We watch how some mammal characteristics were inherited from reptiles, how the first mammals lived among the dinosaurs, and how they slowly outpaced and survived the dinosaurs through mass extinction events. Fascinating animals are covered here, and honestly, any book that brings up the giant ground sloth is a winner. That thing was nuts. I listened to this as an audiobook and really enjoyed it. I found it started a bit slow - I don't much care about ancient lizards and other pre-mammals - but then became enthralling. A really quite detailed discussion of teeth should have been tedious, but instead it was fascinating. This was the moment when I could see the "mammalness" of mammals first emerging. From then on, the book offered a well thought-through characterisation of mammals and what has made them successful as a group. Note that by well thought-through I mean that Brusatte has done a good job of identifying which elements will be pertinent and interesting to a lay reader; I'm not congratulating him on the quality of his science, which I am not an expert in. The writing is fun and light, but also very clear. It's a shame I don't care about dinosaurs, because I'm sure his other book is also well-written. Also, I've never been able to do this before: Carboniferous-Permian-Triassic-Jurassic-Cretaceous-Paleogene (Paleocene-Eocene-Oligocene)-Neogene(Miocene-Pliocene)-Quaternary(Pleistocene-Holocene) This turned out to be a rather more introductory and popular work than I was expecting, but taken for what it is, it's quite good. It deals with mammals' Palaeozoic forebears, the early mammals living alongside the dinosaurs, and the Cenozoic "reign" of mammals, where they all but monopolize large land animal niches. Speaking of size-based niches, a point Brusatte makes is that while the dinosaurs kept Mesozoic mammals small, mammals equally kept dinosaurs large - dinosaurs could only invade the small endotherm realm by becoming birds, literally keeping out of reach of the mammals. I'd preferred if Brusatte had kept his politics out of the book, but that's a minor complaint. The "further reading" section is dangerous. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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"Beginning with the earliest days of our lineage some 325 million years ago, Brusatte charts how mammals survived the asteroid that claimed the dinosaurs and made the world their own, becoming the astonishingly diverse range of animals that dominate today's Earth. Brusatte also brings alive the lost worlds mammals inhabited through time, from ice ages to volcanic catastrophes. Entwined in this story is the detective work he and other scientists have done to piece together our understanding using fossil clues and cutting-edge technology." -- inside front and back jacket flaps.
"Renowned paleontologist and New York Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs Steve Brusatte charts the extraordinary story of the dinosaurs' successor: mammals, which emerged from the shadows to rule the Earth"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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These are two salient points in Dr. Steve Brusatte’s The Rise and Reign of the Mammals. Brusatte, PhD, is an American Paleontologist who teaches at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. The book’s notes identify him as the author of the international bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs. The paleontology advisor on the Jurassic World film franchise, Brusatte has named more than fifteen new species, including the tyrannosaur “Pinocchio rex” (Qianzhousaurus), the raptor Zhenyuanlong, and several ancient mammals.
This is a book by a scientist for the general public. It’s conversational, not overloaded with jargon, and personal: he declaims his own take on the state of the science, and peppers his insights with idiosyncratic anecdotes about the principal intrepid scientists whose preceded his own. His reverence for these pioneering specialists — his heroines and heroes — never flags.
If you have an interest in the evolution of mammals, I can’t imagine there is a better book or a better author with whom to start.
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