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Title: factual errors
Review: This book made interesting reading and I would say it was well written. However, it only gets two stars because of the sloppy editing... if I'm not an expert and caught some errors on the first read, how many more are there that I didn't notice. For example, the author states that stromatolites and trilobites were extinct by the end of the Carboniferous Era. Well, in fact, it's pretty widely accepted that trilobites lived past the Carboniferous, and stromatolites still exist today. After reading the book, I found Stephen Jay Gould's review of it; he noticed not only substantial errors in natural history, but in the accounts of people's lives and motivations. There's no excuse for this kind of poor work.
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