The first edition was soon sold.

Then my colleagues Mick and Roger hugged me as they left, and then I was on my bike pedaling home alone. Wholly, embodiedly, acceptingly alone.

Then in 1946, fossils of multicellular organisms were recovered from Vendian deposits around 570My old at the Ediacara copper mine in South Australia. Since then, geologists have found similar Ediacaran faunas in Precambrian rocks from other parts of the world as well.

Rotenone is widely considered safe for mammals and other nongilled animals, though some concerns have been raised about links to Parkinson’s disease and some types of cancer.