Starting off this year’s reading with paleontology, where biology meets geology. Both evolve in long periods of boredom interrupted occasionally by panic, especially now by humans– the most successful invader in biological history
讀科技用年度看世界,讀政治用每十年看世界,讀歷史用百年看世界,讀人類學用千年,讀考古生物學就要看萬年了。
雖然一直查單字很累,”三疊紀”,”古近紀”,”白堊紀”,”鸚鵡螺”,”恐鳥”,”蘇門答臘白犀牛”和一堆古代的動物植物,可是讓我想起小時候讀 #漢聲小百科 一樣,看不懂還是讀得津津有味!
中文版去年就出了,“第六次大滅絕”
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