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Explaining Humans with Dr Camilla Pang

What science can teach us about life, love and relationships.

How do we understand the people around us? How do we recognise people's motivations, their behaviour, or even their facial expressions? And, when do we learn the social cues that dictate human behaviour?

Add to Calendar 02/22/21 06:00 PM 02/22/21 07:00 PM United Kingdom (GMT) Explaining Humans with Dr Camilla Pang <p>Join Dr Camilla Pang as she discusses her book, Explaining Humans, with Claudia Hammond.</p> NI Science Festival online
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Join Dr Camilla Pang as she discusses her book, Explaining Humans, with Claudia Hammond

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What science can teach us about life, love and relationships.

How do we understand the people around us? How do we recognise people's motivations, their behaviour, or even their facial expressions? And, when do we learn the social cues that dictate human behaviour?

Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the age of eight, Camilla Pang struggled to understand the world around her and the way people worked. 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.

This event is hosted by author and TV & Radio presenter Claudia Hammond.

Winner of the 2020 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize. 

About the speaker

Dr Camilla Pang holds a PhD in Biochemistry from University College London and is a Postdoctoral Scientist specialising in Translational Bioinformatics.

This event is part of NI Science Festival 2021.

Explaining Humans by Dr Camilla Pang

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