Alive: The Hidden Intelligence of the Living World

Melanie Challenger writes, researches, and broadcasts on the history of ideas, the history and philosophy of science, and the relationship between humans and the living world. She is the author of How to Be Animal: What It Means to Be Human, among other works, and host of The Psychosphere podcast. She is also an award-winning poet and librettist for opera and oratorios, and a National Geographic Explorer. Melanie is internationally active in bioethics, codirector of Animals in the Room, and vice president of the RSPCA.