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Jo Marchant is a freelance journalist, New York Times bestselling author and speaker. Her writing explores the nature of humanity, the mind-body connection, the universe and past civilisations. Her latest book is The Human Cosmos: A secret history of the stars (Canongate, 2020). Jo is a former editor of the journal Nature and a former opinion editor at New Scientist.
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