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A lock for every key, even if some are weird and corkscrew shaped (CBR12Bingo 2: Orange

Nature's Nether Regions by Menno Schilthuizen

October 15, 2020 by octothorp Leave a Comment

The jargon problem we talked about in my review of the last book? Yeah, it’s in evidence here. I feel bad, because Schilthuizen very obviously tries hard to avoid it, naming the nether regions in question as closely as he can to their human equivalent, but I got lost in all the pedipalps and ovipositors and couldn’t make heads or tails of much of the book (the difference between heads and tails being kind of important when talking about sexual reproduction). This was dry (again, […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr12bingo, Menno Schilthuizen, orange

octothorp's CBR12 Review No:117 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr12bingo, Menno Schilthuizen, orange ·
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