Cave bear coprolites 🐻💩 rather than #Neanderthal ones sadly, but a hearth has been lifted en bloc for lab excavation!

Probable bow & arrow or dart injury during hunting, c. 16.5 ka

📚 Today is US pub day for #InfiniteLife by Jules Howard! A startlingly beautiful, satisfyingly nerdy & unashamedly affectionate exploration of evolution's crucibles of creation (see my nature review ⬇️)

US-friends, Infinite Life is out today! (Courtesy of Pegasus Books). Enjoy! Really delighted you get to read it too.

Total 🦋 b sky users now near 8 million with hugely active AND interactive science, literary, culture & politics crowds: everyone talks to everyone (like old twitter!). Some people I'd love to see there - Chris Stringer CENIEH William Dalrymple Dr Adam Rutherford Tom Holland

Strikes me how weird it would have been to read this a decade ago.

Hello US followers! My latest book, The Roads to Rome, has 25% off if you pre-order from Barnes & Noble this week! Out in time for Christmas with code PREORDER25 #BNPreorder: barnesandnoble.com/w/the-roads-to…

Love this : Naia's story is in #Matriarcha

Starting a very full autumn with first of 3 London trips this month, excited to see fabulous friends ! And while continuing the terrifying mad joy of #Matriarcha writing, in Oct & Nov there are culminations of two other wonderful projects; more news soon!

Lots of chat about ever-worsening professional situation in academia over on 🟦 sky

Absolutely agree. Either represent all faiths, and atheists, humanists, philosophers, scientists as critical thinkers with morally relevant opinions... or just entirely scrap these positions

Gorgeous launch at Chiswick House last night for the lovely William Dalrymple 's latest, most ambitious, and for me most exciting book! Huge congratulations!

Also the interior at Chiswick House is stunning, couldn't get enough of those dark velvet walls 😍

First define "modern humans" & "settled"... Also this section is 🤔 makes it sound as if #Neanderthals and sapiens women are just mating robots

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This is one of my favourite scientific serendipities - my bit on it in #Kindred

From 21st century London to 12th century in the Welsh Borders - setting up camp at Chirk Castle NT/YG Castell Y Waun for a battle tomorrow !

In case you missed it: We've welcomed a new bill to remove the hereditary peers from the House of Lords. The next step should be to remove the Lords Spiritual. There should be no automatic seats in Parliament for any religion. humanists.uk/2024/09/05/lor…