Scattered throughout this chronological narrative are anecdotes from Brusatte’s own work and explanations of how we have come to know all of this information. The entire book can be thought of as a timeline of dinosaurs, from before their empire on earth began to its final catastrophic moments. Through the structure of this book, Brusatte effectively conveys the history of paleontology, the lifestyle of a paleontologist, his own work as a paleontologist, and the scope of paleontology itself. A book about dinosaurs! Written for non-scientists! A dream come true! Imagine my curious delight when I stumbled upon The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of the Lost World by Steve Brusatte. Apparently paleontology also falls into these random interests of mine. Although I was not very good at chemistry and physics and biology in high school, I genuinely enjoyed learning about the theoretical bits, how that field of science developed over time and came to be what it is today. As someone who isn’t very scientifically minded, I do love learning about the history aspect of science, the timeline of it all. You can often find me carrying around my colorful dinosaur tote bag that I bought the first day I was in Oxford, a bag that traveled all over Europe with me and that has gotten me through many a grocery trip. I love the books by Michael Crichton, the movies (old and new), and the novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that inspired it all. It may surprise some people that I am an avid and enthusiastic Jurassic Park fan.
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