Michael Marshall @m_c_marshall

Freelance science writer covering biology, health and environment. He/him. Get my first book "The Genesis Quest" at https://t.co/trVoUKwZe9 michaelcmarshall.com United Kingdom Joined February 2009

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Michael Marshall @m_c_marshall

4 days ago

Here I am talking about a million-year-old skull from China, and what it means for the story of human evolution, on the @newscientist podcast. NS: newscientist.com/podcasts/skull… Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sku… YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=H621UT…

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Michael Marshall @m_c_marshall

5 days ago

This is a million-year-old skull from Yunxian, China. It belongs to an extinct species of human. And it suggests that our own species had a much longer prehistory than we thought. @newscientist newscientist.com/article/249776…

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Michael Marshall @m_c_marshall

6 days ago

How can we get disaffected high-schoolers to take an interest in botany? Why, by using the music videos of @taylorswift13 of course - as Feedback learns in @newscientist. newscientist.com/article/mg2673…

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Michael Marshall @m_c_marshall

2 weeks ago

I reviewed Steven Pinker's new book for @newscientist. Out of 9 chapters, 7 are good, one is mush, and one is so bad it retrospectively makes the rest of the book look worse. newscientist.com/article/mg2673…

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Michael Marshall @m_c_marshall

2 weeks ago

Feedback in @newscientist discusses a study showing that dog ownership causes hurricanes - except that's, er, not what it shows newscientist.com/article/mg2673…

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Michael Marshall @m_c_marshall

2 weeks ago

I reviewed Steven Pinker's new book for @newscientist. Most of it is pretty good - until you get to the chapter on cancel culture, which is an ill-informed, ill-considered mess. newscientist.com/article/mg2673…

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Michael Marshall @m_c_marshall

3 weeks ago

Congratulations to physicist Avi Loeb, who is the namesake for a new scale intended to grade interstellar objects on how artificial they appear to be. But who decided to call it the Loeb scale, asks Feedback in @newscientist? newscientist.com/article/mg2673…

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Michael Marshall @m_c_marshall

3 weeks ago

After the Romans abandoned Britain, the island descended into chaos and economic collapse - except actually it didn't, say archaeologists. Story in @newscientist newscientist.com/article/249584…

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Michael Marshall @m_c_marshall

3 weeks ago

Have cosmic events, like asteroid impacts or nearby supernovae, changed the course of human evolution? I see a lot of claims about this, but guess what, I don't think they stand up. Our Human Story, @newscientist newscientist.com/article/249559…

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Michael Marshall @m_c_marshall

a month ago

Thousands of people love Pépito the online cat - or they did until his owner started selling Pépito-themed crypto (Feedback in @newscientist) newscientist.com/article/mg2673…

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Michael Marshall @m_c_marshall

a month ago

I've reviewed Madeleine Beekman's "The Origin of Language", in which she argues that language evolved to help us cope with the demands of raising our helpless babies, for @newscientist newscientist.com/article/mg2673…

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Michael Marshall @m_c_marshall

a month ago

My debut for @aeonmag: Life formed incredibly early in Earth's history, so the idea that our world was once an unliveable hellscape is just not true. aeon.co/essays/life-on…