godina izdanja: 2022. ∘ čitana: 3.3.-13.4.2024.
žanr: nonfiction science ∘ str.: 416 ∘ kako: knjiga
ocjena: 4/5 ne znam davati ocjene non-fictionu ooops

jednostavno me privukla naslovnica i morala sam ju pročitala. bilo je zanimljivo štivo, ali mislim da mi je prošlo kroz glavu jer je jako specific što se tiče područja - a ovdje se radi o palentologiji.
imala je par zanimljivih pasosa o imenovanju različitih vrsta koje su nekak povezane s tolkienom i cijeli ovaj dio s 260. strane:

All life, ultimately, is built of the minerals in the Earth. In the modern day, of course, our food webs are spread all over the world. A person drinking a mug of tea with a chocolate biscuit in London can be consuming atoms weathered from minerals in several continents, formed across billions of years; ions absorbed by Indian tea plants grown in a patch of Precambrian Gondwanan gneiss soil, thrown up into steep mountain slopes by the Eocene collision of continents; atoms absorbed from redistributed glacial loam by wheat, since ground into flour as if recapitulating the action of Pleistocene glaciers, and Ivorian cacao, grown in fertilizer made from Paleocene phosphate deposits on endlessly recycled rainforest soils, in turn derived from the ancient basement granites, quartzes and schists of the geological heart of West Africa that even at the time of the Chengjiang biota had been lying beneath the ground for perhaps 3 billion years.