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An Outsider's to Humans, What Science Led Me to Do
By the age of seven, camilla was cracking open her uncle's science text books and asking for her own. Years later, Camilla was diagnosed with atism spectrum disorder, a d h d and generalize anxiety disorder. And as she grew she read more across scientific disciplines, compiling information in note books that are piled up in her london flat. Her memoir is called, an outsider's to humans, what science taught me about what we do and who we are. In this book, it won the royal society prize for science books in 20 20 and we're ging to take a deep dive into it.
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