We interrupt you regularly scheduled dose of news on peer-reviewed papers to bring you a short tribute to Sir David Attenborough.

As I write this, the final episode of Life in Cold Blood, and thus the final episode of the entire “Life” series, has just finished airing on British telly. And what a climax it was – for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet, you’re in for a treat of caring mother caimans, bellowing alligators and a sequence of green turtle mating that was truly one of the most awesome pieces of natural history video I have ever seen. And I mean awesome in the traditional sense of the word, rather than the internet version. All of that has come at