Happy paperback publication day to Tim Coulson

Professor Tim Coulson’s The Universal History of Us is now out in paperback from Penguin under a new title – A Little History of Everything: From the Big Bang to You.

It is a book of multiple titles, published in the US by Pegasus as The Science of Why We Exist. Translation rights have been sold in Brazil, China, France, Japan, Korea, Romania, Spain and Ukraine.

In the year since the hardback was published, Tim has started a fun podcast called The Science of the Times with an Oxford colleague Syma Khalid. The two of them invite guests to discuss and explain the latest scientific findings in language we can all understand.

Catch up with Tim’s research into how predators shape ecosystems and evolution (the subject of his next book, coming out in 2026) on the latest episode of BBC Radio 4’s The Life Scientific.