Eels Don’t Have Sex Until the Last Year of Their Life

[[newsletter20_header.png] July 30, 2020 [17451_c83f9d8520b9f5777d146d9e0c4ceaaf.png] Chapter Two: Family Matters]( [READ ISSUE]( Dear Nautilus Reader, Eels have one strange sex life. Not that any human has ever seen them have sex. Aristotle tried. So did Freud. But they only breed in the Sargasso Sea, and only at the end of their lives. That’s just one amazing fact you’ll learn about eels this week in Nautilus. Also: How sex was the corrective that led to human evolution; and a story about the everlasting love between Jonas Salk and painter (and Picasso ex) Francoise Gilot. Best, The Nautilus Team info@nautil.us [17429_f91ee142269ec908c23e1cd87286e254.jpg]( [17476_669682950cf309c75581fb49f3e2cef2.png]( [Eels Don’t Have Sex Until the Last Year of Their Life Why eels are one strange fish. By Steve Paulson Fishing for eels was a primal childhood experience for Patrik Svennson.]( [17469_058d732557d3b439eb2ffdd074bbf347.png]( [The Price of Life Is Death, but Sex Improves the Exchange Rate Calculating the evolutionary success of Homo sapiens. By Aaron Hirsh Epidemics have a way of making one wonder about death.](  [17430_c1082e40d6bd5c5d64f2ccb8f73cea5c.png]( [Your Support Matters NAUTILUS PRINT EDITION Subscribe to Nautilus for great insight into scientific questions and discoveries that impact your life now and for generations to come.](  [17477_300058cc7d509b418f18870314eb92ac.png]( [You Want to See My Data? I Thought We Were Friends! “Science Fictions” By Stuart Ritchie & Zach Weinersmith Stuart Ritchie is a Lecturer in the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London. His new book, Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth, explains the ideas in this comic, by Zach Weinersmith, in more detail, telling shocking stories of scientific error and misconduct.]( [14180_6d0893ce02e4926539d6f7e0601c6161.png]( [The Last Love of Jonas Salk The unusual union of a renowned artist and the discoverer of the Polio vaccine. By Charlotte Decroes Jacobs The first time they met, French artist Françoise Gilot seemed more interested in her salad than in Jonas Salk—somewhat embarrassing for her friend Chantal Hunt, who had insisted she join them for lunch.]( [READ ISSUE]( [nwms_fb.png]( [nwms_twt.png]( [nwms_ing.png]( NautilusNext 25 Broadway 9th FloorNew York, NY 10018 [Add us to your address book]( Copyright © 2020 NautilusNext, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website. [unsubscribe from this list](   [update subscription preferences](