Zuza glowacka biography of william

This was such a fun read because even though it was published in 1992, the information was still mostly pertinent. The information that was outdated was also interesting in terms of science history (e.g. Linnaeus was still being used as the main resource for grouping organisms whereas cladistics is the preferred method today and it was interesting how he said that cladistics has been compared to Marxist ideology because I had never heard that before; some of the facts referred to complex organisms as 'more advanced' when we know today that complexity isn't directly proportional to advancement; DNA sequencing hadn't come into play when this was first published and the Human Genome Project was only a proposition; and Pluto was still being referred to as a planet, among others!).

A few of the facts were a little silly, like that cows 'aren't really vegetarians' because the grass they consume has bacteria that their stomachs digest (which is essentially wrong because that would mean that herbivores don't exist if we take into account the bacteria and other microorganisms on plants and in their bodies) or too simplistic to make complete sense like the explanation that the sky is blue because blue light scatters mor

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