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Jim
May 18, 2021 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
I enjoyed the content of the book quite a bit. The author has an easy way of approaching some very technical subjects & never bogs down. While there is some technical jargon, he explains it all well. The way experiments were set up was very interesting as were some of the results, especially the unexpected ones. Best of all, he conveys the sense of wonder of the true scientist.

That said, I really didn't like the narrator, Chris Sorenson. Possibly a personal problem, I found the voice close to f
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‘Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution’s Mysteries� by Kenneth Catania is an extremely fun science book! I highly recommend it to anyone interested in science, especially the general reader. Not only is Catania a high-end, respected scientist ()

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“Catania was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2006 and in 2013 he received the Pradel Research Award in Neurosciences from the National Academy of Sciences
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