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‘An Immense World: How Animal Senses reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us’ by Ed Yong is a monumental book, even epic (in how brave scientists developed experiments to suit the sensory equipment of animals, after decades, even centuries, of mistaken beliefs about animals because experiments were based on human anatomy)! An enormous amount of science facts about how animals sense the world are collected in one volume. It takes time to read and fully grok. If you get it from a library, I think you w
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Immense World was an immense amount of information, perhaps more suited to textbook format than casual reading (or listening) like I was doing. It's very well-researched and exhaustively written (using both the negative and positive connotation of exhausting), similar to Yong's earlier book I Contain Multitudes. I also found An Immense World to veer a bit too political toward the end than I typically find acceptable for primarily science books. Obviously the interplay between the natural world a
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