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Tango01 | 10 May 2018 3:20 p.m. PST |
…. in the Game of Life "Oné R. Pagán is a university biology professor and a blogger, and both sides come out in this entertainingly informative look at the various ways life tries to, well, stay alive (i.e. not get eaten). As he says in the introduction to Strange Survivors: How Organisms Attack and Defend in the Game of Life (2018), he "wrote this book with the semi-mythical ‘interested layperson' in mind … [so] I will not be excessively technical, but neither will I be patronizing … I've tried to write as if we were having a conversation over coffee." Thus, like most writers of popular science, Pagán is aiming at that sweet spot where he doesn't lose his reader to jargon or overly-abstruse concepts or talk to his readers as if they struggled to complete elementary school. And for the most part he hits it, though at times he's a bit too folksy for me in some of his direct addresses, and I wouldn't have minded a little more technical science here and there. There's also a bit of a blog-ish feel to the organization, which can at times be a bit disjointed. But overall Strange Survivors is a concise and interesting book that holds one's attention while revealing in enthusiastic fashion the wonder of the world around us…."
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