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Robin Dunbar: Evolution (2021, Oxford University Press, Incorporated, Oxford University Press)

A Standard, Somewhat Dated Review of Evolutionary Biology

I might have had unreasonable expectations for this book, which is clearly geared towards complete neophytes to the field. It's also a bit dated, which is a surprise given that the second edition was only recently released. Very little of Dunbar's research makes an appearance here, and if you're at all familiar with evolutionary theory you probably won't get anything until the chapters on humans, which are still fairly straightforward

replied to Ben Waber's status

@bwaber Now I'm curious to see the statistics on your book ratings, and ratings generally. I think a lot of people wouldn't bother rating books that are so bad that they don't finish them, so scores are probably skewed.

It would also be interesting to be able to look up a book and see what people you're following have scored it 🤔

replied to Jonathan Yu's status

@jawnsy@mastodon.social I don't think I have any ones since if a book is below what I consider a 2 I stop reading it and don't feel qualified to fully rate it. I also don't think I rate anything a 4.5, mostly because if it's a 5 it has to be nearly perfect/mind blowing, or it becomes a 4 since it's still really good but with some notable flaw.

I think I'm harsher than people on a lot of my ratings but I'm not sure