{"id":603889,"date":"2026-08-25T06:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T06:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/603889\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T06:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T06:50:10","slug":"the-transmitters-reading-list-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/603889\/","title":{"rendered":"The Transmitter\u2019s reading list for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/books\/hardcover\/9780691238920\/the-fox-the-shrew-and-you?srsltid=AfmBOoqQwi3AUabsp_x4HL7s2FdDAk8B2xia6Tq7HkU27F9UpD3ApljK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"410\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/FoxShrewYour-Mars.png\" class=\"\" alt=\"The Fox, The Shrew, and You by Rogier B. Mars\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFox, the Shrew, and You: How Brains Evolved\u201d<\/a> by Rogier Mars (Princeton University Press)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndcn.ox.ac.uk\/team\/rogier-mars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rogier Mars<\/a> examines all corners of the animal kingdom, including lemurs, squirrels, dogs and even the humble sea squirt, to provide readers with an in-depth view of the critical moments in evolution that enabled brains to expand in structure, complexity and cognitive capability. Read an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetransmitter.org\/evolution\/the-fox-the-shrew-and-you-how-brains-evolved-an-excerpt\/?swcfpc=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">excerpt from Chapter 1<\/a> of \u201cThe Fox, the Shrew, and You\u201d on The Transmitter. <\/p>\n<p>Publication date: 5 March 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cFox, the Shrew, and You: How Brains Evolved\u201d by Rogier Mars (Princeton University Press) Rogier Mars examines all&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[61,60,82],"class_list":["post-603889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}