In case you missed it, my story about Lucy's first-ever European showing: www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

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For Lucy's 50th, I wrote about what made her both a scientific and cultural icon: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti... (it's paywalled but I'm happy to send a PDF if you message me!) 🧪🏺

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I submitted the first full draft of my book to my editor this weekend and I'm not sure how to feel.

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Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

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My favorite coincidence is that the Origins of Species was published #OnThisDay in 1859, followed 115 years later—to the day—by the discovery of Lucy. 🧪🏺

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