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too mich time wasted

Revisado: 11-02-24

repetitive on simple concepts and descriptions. most of the words are useless but filling up the limited short time.

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exactly the level I need

Revisado: 05-24-24

Like the first book of this series, it's more in-depth than popular physics but much less than textbooks. Sean's explanations make understanding the big picture so much clear. Unlike textbooks, it goes directly into the important topics with necessary prerequisites so that readers/listeners can grasp the essence quickly. accompanied PDF may not be enough if one needs reviewing what's learned. Excellent book!

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learned little

Revisado: 02-24-24

the author built the theory with all cases in the universe to be related to one thing: energy. but unfortunately I only see correlation not much of causation which, in terms of knowledge, is what I would like to read. of course, all cell activities are related to energy and he can write a few more volumes to list them all, but that's not how the problem is solved or else the whole world just needs to study mitochondria. narration is cringe, contents not well organized

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largely disordered story

Revisado: 12-05-23

the author is so excited you tell everything in one whoop but ends up in haphazard details and lost essence

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learned nothing

Revisado: 06-04-22

the author presents his own understanding with many errors on well established knowledge adding his own terms. he failed to answer the question he raised by circling logic. kinetics is never a driving force for life emerge or evolution.

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very good and detail accounts of career life

Revisado: 03-03-22

I hesitated reading this book partly because it would certainly arouse my nostalgia to the first half of my career life. Being trained as crystallographer in my graduate study and postdoc, I'm quite familiar with the life cycle as well as those scientists detailed in the book. But I quit the career exactly because how the author recounted the dark side of the politics. the culture feels suffocated to me. I admire author's perseverance to have culminated the crown jewel in scientific reward. But reading through the story, that still seems to be the ultimate driving force for staying in. with some nostalgia, I don't regret my choice after all.

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Good until the last third

Revisado: 09-14-21

the first two third is very good. The last third is hard to follow, more like random thoughts.

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All based on hypothesis

Revisado: 08-05-21

I can hardly finish the entire book. The author created concepts of his own from what he understood about brain science without single experiment data to support. Throughout the book, you can tell what's his original and what's copied from others. The author distinguishes old and new as bad and good, has little understanding of evolution and biology. It's not hard to imagine why he can't get research funding. His view about current AI stays at elementary level but still belittles researchers as lack of knowledge. Publishing this book is easier than publishing his "result" in peer reviewed journals. Very disappointed that Richard Dawkins recommended perhaps because the author cited multiple times his book.

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Excellent book!

Revisado: 07-12-21

this is one of the best books I bought by Sean Carroll. I enjoy everyone of them. it's very in-depth and clarifies many concepts.

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too much random thought

Revisado: 04-27-21

Maybe the author thinks the book very organized. I feel it otherwise. listening to the narration, it sounds more like the author talking to himself randomly. I can't get through half of the book. regret the purchase.

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