Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I should have realized when the author describes in an early chapter that an ancestral reptile is a "reptile mammal hybrid" that this was not going to be scientifically accurate. It just went downhill from there. As soon as this author dips her toe into science, she's in over her head. She gets the genetic consequences of the founder effect wrong when she lumps the derived population with the originating population and misapplies the data from one to the other. She accepts Roopnarine's myopic view of food-webs as Gospel. In fact, she doesn't question any scientist's views. She's like a groupie with no abilty to discriminate between solid science and speculation. That is never so obvious than in the later chapter where she gushes over one of her favorite science fiction writers and elevates her fiction to the level of scientific insight. As another reviewer hinted, this book is less about the subject than it is a love-fest for the author's favorite things. It wasn't until I had finished this book that I read that the author was a prolific blogger. That explains much. This book is not a scientific work. It isn't even a book that makes science accessible to the general public. It's a disorganized, incoherent blog in paper form. Don't waste your time, or your money on this one.