Stories by Petiver

Europe fell in love with long pepper before black pepper (2016)

Reconstruction of ancient microbial genomes from the human gut

The Hume paradox: how great philosophy leads to dismal politics

WW1: Was it the first world war? (2014)

Before he wrote a thesaurus, Roget had to escape Napoleon’s dragnet

At Home Among the Birds: An Interview with Jonathan Meiburg

Why bumblebees love cats and other beautiful relationships

Literature’s Most Curious Creations

800-year-old medieval pottery fragments reveal Jewish dietary practices

The Anthropometric Detective and His Racial Clues (2016)

What It’s Like to Care for the Mighty ‘Corpse Flower’ (2020)

Life Expectancy Among European Scholars from the 16th to the Early 20th Century

Killing it: From handaxes to spears, no difference in hunting (2020)

Splash: Review of Merpeople: A Human History

Sex, scandal and high society in Chips Channon’s uncensored diaries

The grisly trials that gave poison to prisoners

Order Amid Chaos: A poet-scientist considers the imponderables of existence

The Lasting Lessons of John Conway’s Game of Life (2020)

A man who printed the world of plants

An Archeologist’s Guide to Beer Cans

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