

Michael Marshall
Science writer
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Michael Marshall is a science writer focused on life sciences, health and the environment. He has a BA and MPhil in experimental psychology from the University of Cambridge and an MSc in science communication from Imperial College London. He has worked as a staff journalist at ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓÆµ and the BBC. Since 2017, he has been a freelance writer, published by outlets including BBC Future, National Geographic, Nature, ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓÆµ, The Observer and The Telegraph. In 2019, he was shortlisted for News Item of the Year by the Association of British Science Writers for his ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓÆµ article about a new species of early human. Michael's first book, is about the beginning of life on Earth and was published to universal acclaim in 2020. He writes a monthly email newsletter about human evolution, Our Human Story, for ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓÆµ.
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Humans
First poison arrows may have been loosed 70,000 years ago in Africa
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Natural selection

Life
Leonardo da Vinci saw a whale fossil that opened his mind to deep time
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Tiny mammals once scavenged meat from giant dinosaur carcasses
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Humans
How the slave trade left its mark in the DNA of people in the Americas
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Life
Mosquitoes evolved to suck human blood when they couldn’t find water
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Humans
Humans reached the Americas 15,000 years earlier than thought
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Nature versus nurture

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Eugenics

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Cloning

Life
Rats will help others in distress, but they can be influenced not to
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