Amazon recommended this to me. Knowing we'd be home for a while, I placed a big order with this among others.
This was definitely....interesting. And weird.
This is a collection of short (1-4 pages) entries on animals. Not all of them are as unusual as the platypus. Each entry discusses the animal's interesting features, how it relates to humans on the genome scale, what Darwin thought of (or might think of) said critter, and other information like size/habitat/behavior.
Some of this is incredibly informative and I learned a lot...of useless trivia in case I ever go on Jeopardy. There were also little zingers one might miss if just flipping through (the entry on manatees had some snark about the sea cow's weight and the whale's size was labeled "big as a whale").
On the whole, a conversation starter/coffee table book for sure, some good bell ringers if used in a biology classroom, and lots to study if going on Who Wants to be a Millionaire, but not exactly future standard textbook or classic science literature.
Mr. Dickson would like it.
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