
An Immense World
How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
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Humans have three or four colour-detecting cones in their retinas. Mantis shrimp have 16. In fact, their eyes seem to have more in common with satellite technology than with biological vision as we currently understand it. They have evolved to track movement with an acuity no other species can match by processing raw information; they may not 'see', in the human sense, at all.
Marine molluscs called chitons have eyes that are made of stone. Scorpions appear to see with their entire bodies. It isn't only vision that differs from species to species—some animals also have senses we lack entirely. Knifefish navigate by electrical charge.
An Immense World will take us on an insider's tour of the natural world by describing the biology, physics and chemistry animals use to perceive it. We may lack some of their senses, but our own super-sense lies in our ability to understand theirs. And in the face of the largest extinction event since the meteor that killed the dinosaurs, our only hope of saving other species is bound up with our ability to see what they see, and feel what they feel.
©2022 Ed Yong (P)2022 Penguin AudioGorgeous but difficult
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fascinating first class book. Anecdotes & insights
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Amazing new details of what we know we think we know
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All of it is worth absorbing; all fascinating, quenching curiosity of the natural world.
Narration by author is usually what I go for - works best in non-fiction - and Yong's narration has not disappointed - if is extraordinary.
I have followed Yong in the Atlantic for a few years, and love his immaculate writing style and his depth pf research, but An Immense World is something else - it is A Masterpiece!
Outstanding, in true Ed Yong's style
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Everyone should read this
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epic
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