Did you know? Number of seats in the Hollywood Bowl auditorium (17,500 ) is 2.5 x Estimate of population of Sri Lankan Elephant (7,000 individuals)
Time since the first modern humans (250,000 y)
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Yes, there's now a book based on these numbers. Oxford University Press: July 2018.
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Click here for Podcast: Andrew Elliott interviewed for New Books Network.