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Kate Douglas
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Kate Douglas has been a features editor at New Scientist for three decades. Her beat covers many areas of biology, from evolution and ecology to psychology, animal behaviour and archaeology. Before New Scientist, she worked at the Turkish Times newspaper in Istanbul and at the Royal Society, London, where she helped launch a popular science magazine called Science and Public Affairs. In 2006, she was rapporteur for the European Commission expert group exploring “What it means to be human”.
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