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So, like #AlbertEinstein and #NikolaTesla were more than likely #Neurodivergent. I'm pretty sure their moms didn't take #Tylenol.

#ND #HumanEvolution #NewMutants? #NextStep in #Evolution?

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This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- I adopted a damaged copy of David Farrier's Nature's Genius: Evolution's Lessons for a Changing Planet, published by @canongatebooks.

The other two are cases of the more I read, the more I go down rabbit holes.
- After reviewing Mysteries of the Deep, I bought an ex-library copy of the classic 1995 Paleoclimate and Evolution, with Emphasis on Human Origins, published by Yale University Press, to read more on the work of Elisabeth Vrba and colleagues (this one came from the holdings of the University Library of Durham)

- After reviewing Every Living Thing, I wanted to know more about Cuvier and tracked down an ex-library copy of the classic 1987 The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate: French Biology in the Decades Before Darwin, published by Oxford University Press (this one came from the holdings of the University of Saint Katherine Library)

#ClimateChange #Evolution #Palaeoclimate #HumanEvolution #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon

A top-down photo of three books lying on a small, brown, wooden table. The background shows part of the beech-coloured laminate floor.

On the left, Nature's Genius, showing a photo of a tree against a blue sky. The tree is impossibly clinging on with its root system to the very tip of a rocky outcrop, seemingly growing sideways out of the rock.

In the middle, decidedly bigger than the books on either side, is Paleoclimate and Evolution, with Emphasis on Human Origins, showing a collage of two photos that are diagonally stacked against each other. On the left is a black-and-white aerial photo of a glacial landscape, printed in blue tones (specifically showing the confluence of Beardmore and Mill Glaciers in Antarctica, credited to George H. Denton). On the right is a black-and-white photo of an open grassland savannah with some trees, printed in yellow tones (specifically showing savannah in the Serengeti in Tanzania, credited to Elisabeth S. Vrba). Overlain on the right photo is a drawing of the head and shoulders of a bearded and hairy hominin (specifically Homo habilis).

On the right, The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate, showing a plain hardcover bound in dark blue cloth with gilded lettering debossed in the cover.

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This week's #NewBooks at the library: Some more unusual acquisitions from 2025.

- I purchased the last copy of the definitive retrospective on the #palaeoart of Zdenek #Burian from Albatros Media. Volume 3 focuses on his artwork of prehistoric humans. All these books are written in Czech, but the artwork is just lavish, and I'm a sucker for period palaeoart.

- I found a second-hand copy of the reissue of #AlexanderVonHumboldt's Views of Nature, released by the University of Chicago Press.

- #Spookslot - 44 jaar te gast bij de geesten, a Dutch book I hunted down via a friend, which was released to commemorate the closure of one of the most beloved attractions, Het Spookslot (a haunted house), in De #Efteling, a well-known Dutch amusement park I used to go to quite often as a child. I know they have completely rebuilt it into a new ride now with nods to the classic panoramic show, but I haven't visited it yet.

#Books #Paleontology #Palaeontology #HumanEvolution #Anthropology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Scicomm #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 and part of the beech-coloured laminate floor.

On the left, lying down, Views of Nature, showing a painting a verdant green jungle landscape.

In the middle, standing up on a pile of two other large books, Praveký Svet Zdenka Buriana, Kniha 3: Cesta k Cloveku, a large cloth-bound hardback showing two pieces of colour artwork of classic Czech palaeoartist Zdenek Burian: a cave bear and a hominin sitting down on his haunches while leaning on a stick. The narrow yellow paper wrapper obscures part of the cover and shows the title in Czech.

On the right, lying down, Spookslot - 44 jaar te gast bij de geesten, a slim but rather large square book with a colour photo of a ruined castle at night, lit up by several colourful spotlights. This the Spookslot, a haunted house in the Dutch attraction park De Efteling.

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This week's #NewBooks at the library: three more books from my employer's January sale
- The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush: Museums and Paleontology in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Paul D. Brinkman from the University of Chicago Press;
- Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins, a wonderfully illustrated book by John Gurche from Yale University Press;
- Rethinking Human Evolution edited by Jeffrey H. Schwartz, a volume in the Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology from @themitpress.

#Fossils #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Dinosaurs #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Anthropology #HumanEvolution #Books #Scicomm #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, The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush, showing a hardback with a two-tone black and blue cartoon illustration of a dinosaur peering into the window of an apartment building. This is a famous period engraving by Motty, published in 1886, that shows Iguanodon roaming the streets of 1880s Paris.

In the middle, Shaping Humanity, a black hardback showing a lifelike colour drawing of an ape looking directly at the viewer. The ape is reminiscent of an orangutan, except it has dark-brown to black skin and orange sclera surrounding its black pupils.

On the right, Rethinking Human Evolution, a black hardback showing a collage of fossil human skulls executed in a reddish-ochre colour.

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