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The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens–and Ourselves

Maybe someday

43

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

43/100

Critics

43/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Arik Kershenbaum

Publisher:

Penguin Press

Date:

March 16, 2021

From a noted Cambridge zoologist comes an exploration of what alien life must be like, using universal laws that govern life on Earth and in space.

What The Reviewers Say

David P. Barash,
The Wall Street Journal
'Are we alone?'.
Lewis Dartnell,
The Times (UK)
... as an expert in animal ecology and communication at the University of Cambridge, [Kershenbaum's] perspective is fascinating.
Kermit Pattison,
The New York Times Book Review
... provocative.
James McConnachie,
The Times (UK)
All this is partly reassuring — but also disappointing. Where much writing on astrobiology is joyously speculative, Kershenbaum is doggedly cautious, building his case from first evolutionary principles. He can be dry. What saves the book are the animal examples.