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Scott Sayare

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Scott Sayare @scottsayare.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The most beautiful and most exquisitely evocative tribute to Dolly Parton you will read, done with a verve to match Dolly's own: "She knew both who she was and who she needed to be, and she played it all to a T, part Betty Boop, part Annie Oakley, part Abraham Lincoln."

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Scott Sayare @scottsayare.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Most pleased to see a piece of mine (on what may be the most controversial fossil in all paleoanthropology) on this excellent list!

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Scott Sayare @scottsayare.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Thrilled and honored to have "The Smell Test," my piece for The New York Times Magazine on the great promise of scent in medical diagnosis, included in this year's Best American Science and Nature Writing—selected by the great @susanorlean.bsky.social herself, no less.

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Scott Sayare @scottsayare.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

New piece of mine for @theguardian.com Long Read, on the most ancient possibly hominin fossils ever discovered; the two-decade fight over the bones themselves and their meaning; and what we know—and what we don't, and maybe won't—of the deep origins of humanity.

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The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull, a disputed femur and a bitter feud over humanity’s origins

The long read: When fossilised remains were discovered in the Djurab desert in 2001, they were hailed as radically rewriting the history of our species. But not everyone was convinced – and the bitter...

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