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  • Explaining Humans

  • What Science Can Teach Us About Life, Love and Relationships
  • By: Dr Camilla Pang
  • Narrated by: Dr Camilla Pang
  • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (68 ratings)

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Brought to you by Penguin.

WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2020

Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the age of eight, Dr Camilla Pang struggled to understand the world around her. Desperate for a solution, Camilla asked her mother if there was an instruction manual for humans that she could consult. But, without the blueprint to life she was hoping for, Camilla began to create her own. Now armed with a PhD in biochemistry, Camilla dismantles our obscure social customs and identifies what it really means to be human using her unique expertise and a language she knows best: science.

Through a set of scientific principles, this book examines life's everyday interactions including: Decisions and the route we take to make them; Conflict and how we can avoid it; Relationships and how we establish them; Etiquette and how we conform to it.

Explaining Humans is an original and incisive exploration of human nature and the strangeness of social norms, written from the outside looking in. Camilla's unique perspective of the world, in turn, tells us so much about ourselves - about who we are and why we do it - and is a fascinating guide on how to lead a more connected, happier life.

©2020 Camilla Pang (P)2020 Penguin Audio
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Inspirational insightful brilliant

This was an incredibly enjoyable, enlightening read. Highly recommended! Features the author as narrator (which always helps as they're able to "voice" the content, in the most accurate way truest to the original).

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Depicting humans in an encouraging way

One of the most beautiful book I ever read!
And wonderfully well read by the author who manages to describe scientific and complex topics in an very approachable way, giving even regular funny and touching examples.

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Neurowitty! Fantastic Analogies. Interesting book

Makes science concepts relatable and engaging. I particularly loved the analogies. Couldn't stop listening :-)

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Not what I expected

I thought this would be about the science of autism, etc. Unfortunately, it was nothing of the sort, more like (rather weak) analogies the author takes from scientific phenomena for applying to situations in her life. I found it stretched and tedious, unfortunately.

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Not for me, sorry.

Picked this up as it was on the shortlist for the Royal Society Book Prize. Apologies to the author, but I'm not sure how this was achieved. There are much better books covering science, either generally or specific topics. The premise, how someone with autism can use scientific understanding to navigate personal relationships, may work fir some, but not for me I'm afraid.

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