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is an evolutionary social psychologist with broad interests in how the recurrent challenges of our distant past help us understand our motivational states today. He is the author of The Social Leap ...

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is head of division for health sciences at Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland. She also chairs the Pluralistic Practice steering committee, leads the team running the annual International ...

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Young Woman with Her Hand over Her Mouth (c1875) by Edgar Degas. Courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ...

is a London-based writer and consultant on science, technology and the future. A former editor-in-chief of New Scientist, he is the author of The Bright Side: Why Optimists Have the Power to Change ...

is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Macau and a research associate in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University.

is a neurosurgeon and the author of the book Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery (2024). He lives in New York City.