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William von Hippel is an internationally-renowned professor of psychology based at Australia’s University of Queensland. His writing has been featured in the New York Times, the Economist, Le Monde, and the Australian.

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Ian Morris is an archaeologist, historian, university professor, and co-founder of the Stanford Archaeology Center. His book Why the West Rules – For Now won the 2011 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction. He holds honorary degrees from DePauw University and Birmingham University.

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Richard Dawkins is a Fellow of the Royal Society, and was previously the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. An ethologist and evolutionary biologist by training, he is the best-selling author of many books, including The Selfish Gene (1976), The God Delusion (2006), and The Magic of Reality (2011).

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Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, is the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University. In 2009, Time magazine named him as one of the world’s most influential people. Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015, Christakis also runs the Human Nature Lab, where his team researches a wide variety of social behavior.

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David Eagleman is a professor of neurosciences at Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, Texas. His research has been published by prestigious peer-reviewed journals, including Science and Nature. He is also the author of the science book Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain and the novel Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. He wrote and presented The Brain, a BBC television series that serves as a companion piece to this book.

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Who We Are and How We Got Here (2018) takes readers on a journey through the world’s anthropological history, demonstrating that people have continually migrated and mixed over time. Recent scientific advances are allowing scientists to study human DNA from the distant past and compare it to that of those alive today. The insights about humans’ origins are both fascinating and revealing.

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David Reich is a professor of genetics at Harvard University and a leading expert on ancient DNA. He was commended in 2015 for his role in the ancient DNA revolution and received the Dan David Prize for Archaeological and Natural Sciences in 2017 thanks to his work uncovering the interbreeding between Neanderthals and the ancestors of modern humans.

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The Laws of Human Nature (2018) takes an in-depth look at the many aspects of the human condition that often go overlooked or unacknowledged. As author Robert Greene explains, we are all a bit narcissistic, irrational, short-sighted and prone to compulsive and aggressive behavior. But once we accept and start to understand these aspects of human nature, we can begin to control and even benefit from them.

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Robert Greene is a New York Times bestselling author whose books often examine what it is that makes great minds tick. His work has been admired by historians and business executives alike for its insight into the lives of important historical figures and their winning strategies. His previous books include The 48 Laws of Power (2000), The 33 Strategies of War (2006) and Mastery (2013).

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