#developmentalbiology Timeline

127d

This week's #NewBooks at the library: @princetonupress has a 70% off sale at the moment! I bagged myself four fascinating books:
- The Mirror and the Mind: A History of Self-Recognition in the Human Sciences
- The Network of Life: A New View of #Evolution
- Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built
- Long Problems: Climate Change and the Challenge of Governing across Time

#Psychology #Neuroscience #Neurobiology #Embryology #DevelopmentalBiology #ClimateChange #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon

A photo of four books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books, part of the beech-coloured laminate floor, and a red curtain covering the door.

From left to right, we have:
- The Mirror and the Mind, which divides its cover into a white and silver-coloured half and plays tricks by mirroring the title and author name;
- The Network of Life, showing a close-up of a leaf's vein pattern, the colours grading from yellow through green to blue;
- Zero to Birth, which shows a diagram of a human embryo inside the capital B of Birth, and the outline of a human brain in coloured dots that are connected by many lines;
- and Long Problems, which shows a dark blue background with the title in bold white letters, printed at a ninety-degree angle and narrowing towards the top, imitating the Star Wars title crawl.

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15d

This week's #NewBooks at the library: I bought second-hand copies of Animal Anomalies: What Abnormal Anatomies Reveal about Normal Development and The Correspondence of #CharlesDarwin, Volume 14: 1866, both from Cambridge University Press. I also adopted a damaged copy of the large-format English/German Elefantenreich: Eine Fossilwelt in Europa from Verlag Beier & Beran, which features some amazing fold-out plates. I hear it is basically out of print now.

#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #Evolution #DevelopmentalBiology #EvoDevo #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Fossils #Mammoths #Paleontology #Palaeontology @bookstodon

A photo of three books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books and part of the beech-coloured laminate floor.

On the left, Animal Anomalies, showing a prepared specimen of a frog. The body has been soaked in chemicals that make the flesh translucent and have stained the skeleton red and yellow. This particular frog has a mutation, resulting in its right hind leg splitting into two legs.

In the middle, Elefantenreich, showing a colour illustration of a mammoth in a parched yellow grassland with a herd of mammoths in the background. The individual in the foreground is facing the viewer, dramatically throwing its trunk back over its forehead, and has its mouth open.

On the right, The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 14: 1866, showing a hardback with a moss-green dust jacket with black and white lettering.

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7d

This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- I expanded my collection of #Tolkien books with The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation from W.W. Norton
- I used my employer's Christmas voucher to buy a copy of Simon Parkin's The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under Siege from Sceptre (look out for a review in due course).
- I also found a second-hand copy of What Is Regeneration? from the University of Chicago Press.

#Books #Scicomm #Tolkien #Literature #DevelopmentalBiology #SeedBank #Botany #Bookstodon @bookstodon

A photo of three books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books.

On the left, standing up, The Tower and the Ruin, showing a black-and-white photo of J.R.R. Tolkien on a black background. He is wearing a suit and lighting his pipe.

In the middle, lying down, What Is Regeneration?, showing several blue drawings of hydras, a stalked underwater hydrozoan with a crown of tentacles at its free end.

On the right, standing up, The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad, showing part of a black-and-white photo of two women wearing head scarves, seated against a background of concrete rubble. The top half of the cover shows several technical botanical drawings of plants in colour and black-and-white.

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