The Rise and Reign of the Mammals review: how mammals found their way

by Philippa Kaur 8 June 2022, 18:00 189 Views

The story of the emergence of mammals is told with elan in a clear, engaging book – with a nasty sting in the tale for us humans

Humans

8 June 2022

By Michael Marshall

A sail-backed Dimetrodon looked like a primitive dinosaur, but was a reptile-like precursor to mammals

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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals

Steve Brusatte

Picador

ANYONE writing about mammals faces a key challenge: not making it about us. Humans are mammals of course, and it is easy to present the tale of mammalian evolution as inexorably leading to our arrival. Palaeontologist Steve Brusatte deftly avoids this problem in his new history of mammals by leaving almost all mention of humans to the final pages, where we come in as, essentially, …

Source: Humans - newscientist.com

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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals review: how mammals found their way

New test shows which bits of your DNA are from which biological parent

Scientists observe effects of heat in materials with atomic resolution

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