Although the title talks about the invention of science, it is just as much (if not perhaps more) about philosophy.

Stick with it though. Absolutely do. If I had been told beforehand the amount of philosophy discussed I would have run for the hills, but it all fits together and is explained simply.

At times Leroi can become a bit too pretentious and attempts to be poetical, but it is a lovely book, full of information, and has now inspired me to pick up Aristotle’s views on animals in his own words