Philip Ball Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Philip Ball

Here's a nice (and extensive) joint review of three recent books on minds: @edyong209's An Immense World, Jackie Higgins' Sentient (both focusing on other animals), and The Book of Minds by me, which offers a framework for thinking about minds in general. https://t.co/3lnsp3FoAF

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It's an honour to be shortlisted for the Mythpoeic Award for The Modern Myths. Especially lovely to be on a list with Susanna Clarke's Piranesi. https://t.co/EymWQWyYba

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@curiouswavefn @WKCosmo @zazadob @RichardDawkins What much (not all) of this comes down to is that Julian Huxley's comment when he announced the Modern Synthesis in 1942 was not heeded: "A study of the effects of genes during development is as essential for an understanding of evolution as are the study of mutation..."

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"Wind In the Willows" was a good guess here, but not quite. Some of you correctly caught the Moomin-ness here: it is Tove Jansson's "Comet in Moominland" https://t.co/DGo5JrX0vy

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Sorry, this is hard too unless you've read it, and perhaps even if you have. But it is @david_mitchell's glorious "The Bone Clocks", of which I impatiently await a movie adaptation. https://t.co/WFXOVw5xvt

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My article for @sciam on synthetic morphology is now online. Nice to see it again after just having reread Bernal's "The World, The Flesh, and the Devil". https://t.co/FSRvTj91e4

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There is nothing Nick Lane writes that is not enthralling and packed with ideas. Transformer was no exception. Here I chatted with Nick about it. https://t.co/dM1wAqRb2r

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My review in the TLS of The Matter of Everything, the excellent new book by @suziesheehy. https://twitter.com/TheTLS/status/1532323860946763777

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Here you have to go for the tone. And several of you did: it is "Titus Groan", the first volume of Mervyn Peake's (unfinished) Gormenghast trilogy. https://t.co/fYZmKUPPNc

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One of my others hardly needs my endorsement, because it has been showered with accolades all around: @andrea_wulf's sparkling Magnificent Rebels, a joint biog of the German Romantics. I knew it was a winner the moment I set eyes on it. https://t.co/iswOgS4ADQ