Ben Waber reviewed Growing up Human by Brenna Hassett
A Standard PopSci Book with a Grating Tone
3 stars
This is a standard introductory, popular science review of why human childhood exists. If you're at all familiar with the topic you probably already know what's in this book, but if not you could do worse than this volume. That being said, Hassett's writing style was extremely grating for me. I'm all for making science accessible and throwing in a joke or two, but joke footnotes multiple times per paragraph? The editor must have been asleep at the wheel. If that's how you like your popular science book though you'll like this one
This is a standard introductory, popular science review of why human childhood exists. If you're at all familiar with the topic you probably already know what's in this book, but if not you could do worse than this volume. That being said, Hassett's writing style was extremely grating for me. I'm all for making science accessible and throwing in a joke or two, but joke footnotes multiple times per paragraph? The editor must have been asleep at the wheel. If that's how you like your popular science book though you'll like this one