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Melanie Challenger

Author of How to Be Animal: a new history of what it means to be human

Melanie Challenger is a writer and broadcaster on environmental history, philosophy of biology, and bioethics. She is Deputy Co-Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and a Vice President of the RSPCA. She hosts the podcast The Psychosphere on agency and intelligence in nature.

Melanie Challenger is a writer and broadcaster on environmental history, philosophy of biology, and bioethics. She is Deputy Co-Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and a Vice President of the RSPCA. She hosts the podcast The Psychosphere on agency and intelligence in nature.

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