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Review: The Gilded Dinosaur, Mark Jaffe
Filed in Book Reviews, History, May 21, 2009, 7:30 pmAmerican science was largely a phenomenon of the latter half of the 19th Century. Before the Civil War, Harvard and Yale held an almost complete monopoly on university science in the United States, though their own scientific output was still dwarfed by the work of scattered amateurs in local academies and traveling Europeans. Through the [...]
Review: A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah
Filed in Book Reviews, Sociocultural Anthropology, August 16, 2008, 8:57 pmThis review is also doubling as an (remarkably poorly written) essay for college. The book is a memoir by Ishmael Beah of his time as a refugee and then child soldier in the civil war in Sierra Leone from around 1992 to 2003. Sorry the text has been so weird on my last few [...]
Review: Lucy’s Child, Don Johanson and James Shreeve
Filed in Archaeology, Book Reviews, Human Evolution, July 8, 2008, 5:36 pmThe Anthropoid Origins series is taking longer than I anticipated, largely because I’m lazy and rediscovered Civilization IV there briefly (ironically, while taking a break from working on my paper on Adapoid Theory), which destroyed a few days of my life. I’ve also made a few false starts at blog posts that never ended up [...]
Review: The Jesuit and the Skull, Amir Aczel
Filed in Archaeology, Book Reviews, History, Human Evolution, March 19, 2008, 8:02 pmI finished Amir Aczel’s The Jesuit and the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man today, and I decided to write up a review/reflection sort of thing. I haven’t decided exactly which yet. I’ve thought about adding a feature like this before and I enjoyed doing it, so you might conceivably [...]
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