1/ Two really fun reviews just landed back to back in Current Biology, both on a question I never get tired of: why did animals take over when they did? One argues animals engineered their own world. The other argues oxygen and temperature had to line up first.

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Vast new fossil record challenges story of Earth’s ‘big five’ mass extinctions www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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RIP Professor Noriyuki Satoh, a towering figure in Molecular Evo-Devo of tunicates, hemichordates, corals, brachiopods, nemerteans, phoronids, crown-of-thorns sea stars, oysters, shrimp, seaweeds, catfish, body plans, genomes & biomineralization. www.oist.jp/news-center/...

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A great pleasure to meet @perktas.bsky.social, Turkish translator of my book 'The Tree of Life'. More amazingly Utku presented me with a beautiful, one-of-a-kind tile decorated with Darwin's 'I think' tree plus a Galapagos finch made by his partner Senem. A real treasure.

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שמתם לב שאני פה יותר היום? כבר איזה חודש חודשיים שהחשבון שלי התנתק גם מהטלפון וגם מהמחשב הנייד ונשארתי מחובר רק במחשב בעבודה. התעצלתי לאחזר סיסמה. אבל היום מכורח הנסיבות אחזרתי סיסמה והנני כאן.

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