Dr. Laurence Wainwright and Eileen Neumann

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Dr Laurence Wainwright Departmental Lecturer and Course Director, Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. Eileen Neumann Postdoctoral Research Associate, Neuroscience, University of Zurich. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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