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Hi all, small announcement: I have signed a new 2 book deal with @jennyjennylord at @wnbooks, following on from A Brief History and the #BookofHumans (our 13th Sept
bit.ly/2NykEVq
@jennyjennylord @wnbooks The first will be a short guide/analysis/weapon on the history of race and return of scientific racism. The second, will be my Opus Colossus, basically the story of the universe and everything in it.
Working with @jennyjennylord and @hollharl and all at @wnbooks has been nothing but joy, and that is my literary home. They made A Brief History a huge success. Also, of course, my thanks to my man @zcosini, consigliere and partner.
So, lots more adventures in science, history, and pissing off Nazis to come.

#BookofHumans next though...
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Right. The new #AvengersEndgame trailer. It confirms that Thanos killed 50% of ALL living animals, not just hominoids. This is a HUGE problem that he has not thought through. @JenniferRaff
When large, slowly reproducing animals. Go through bottlenecks or go extinct, smaller faster reproducing animals increase in number to fill those niches. WHICH MEANS A UNIVERSE OF RATS, THANKS THANOS.
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159 years ago today, On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin was published for the first time. It is, to my mind, the most revolutionary, and the most important book ever written.
After an epic journey on the Beagle, years of meticulous thought and experimentation, and prompted by Alfred Wallace coming to roughly the same idea, Darwin compiled his thoughts on the radiation of species in this book.
And the process by which the diversification of life on Earth had occurred over generational and geological time.
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Male Australian redback spiders are the ultimate dinner date: upon releasing sperm during mating, the male is eaten by the female in what is known as ‘reproductive cannibalism’ - arguably the least sexy phrase ever.
Happy #InternationalMensDay2018

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Female fruitbats of the species Cynopterus sphinx perform oral sex on males *during* penetrative sex, which (counterintuitively) extends the duration of copulation, possibly for mate-guarding purposes. Happy #InternationalMensDay2018
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NEW: How a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was made worse by Trump's "America First" policies and the world's neglect (Warning: Graphic images) bit.ly/2v4YgvK
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