Logarithmic History
Mannish boy
Swift-footed Erectus
Grassroots
Two million BC
Turnover pulse
Your cuisinart, a prehistory
The Great American Interchange
Lucy
Southern apes
Ardi
Four legs good, three legs better
Four legs good, two legs better
The bottomlands
Grasses and gases for a cooling world
Toumaï
Bottom-up apes
Oak ape
Apes, on the road to great
We were never chimps
Bunches of monkeys
Planet of the apes
Dead baby monkeys
Gould’s Belt
Ground up monkey brains
The monkey’s voyage
Bird life
Age of mammals
Life at sea: Whales and sailors
Strange relations and island continents
The worst day in the history of the Earth
Leaves of grass
Land of giants
Slime had they for mortar
Consider her ways
People of the Wind
Hotblooded
In Memoriam, Paleozoic
When life almost died
The worst of times
Coals to Newcastle
Devonian days
On the Origin of Seafood by Means of Natural Selection,
Snow time
Duxelles
Reuben, Reuben
When you were a tadpole and I was a fish
Between Darwin’s and Saint Valentine’s Days
The boring billion
Life goes nuclear
Compost
Matchmaking life
Better living through chemistry
The world inside
Central Dogma blues
Sun, Earth, Moon, Earthrise, “Terra”
Where is everybody? Maybe we’re (some of) the first
Where is everybody?
A family tree for the Sun
Evolution and broken symmetries
The curve of binding energy
We are stardust
Determinism
Progress
Books 2025
Deep Learning State
Baby bust
A world divided
Globalization and its discontents
Culture wars
Some kinship math
Saddam’s kin
“My nights were sour, spent with Schopenhauer”
Tutsi and Hutu
Europe of nations
When the Berlin Wall fell
The veil
Half the sky
The modern synthesis and the blank slate
Land of samba
The pursuit of the millennium
Uneven development
1931
“I’ll never be hungry again”
Sexual Turing test
The first Nobel
Big in Japan, continued
Big in Japan
Taiping
Gradualism
“The moral grammar of marriage rules”
Austenites
The Magic Flute, a modern production
Debt and democracy
Steam engine time
Inbreeding depression
The last of the magicians
Cavaliers and Roundheads
The world in 1600
Witches
Copernicus versus the scientific method
Of Cannibals
The Alteration
Pox
Brave New World
1492
Philology
After the plague
“The Accursed Kings”
Tales of the South Pacific
Homo hierarchicus
A cycle of Cathay
Arabs and Turks
Vinland
Empires and barbarians
Muslim majority
I now pronounce you
Culture of honor
Bring out your dead
The selfish meme
Plagues and peoples
Enjoy it while it lasts
The historical Jesus
Mirror empires
The way and the word, continued
The way and the word
State patriarchy and the Ancient City
Weaving history
The world at 1000 BCE
PTSD
Achilles Slash Patroclus
The Fall of Troy
Alpha Beta Veda
Lapita
Exodus
Alpha Beta
Build like an Egyptian