Senior Lecturer, University of York
Amanda Rees is a historian of science based at the University of York’s Department of Sociology. She currently edits the British Journal for the History of Science, and recently published Presenting Futures Past: Science Fiction and the History of Science, edited with Iwan Rhys Morus. Her latest book, Human, co-written with Charlotte Sleigh, is forthcoming in May 2020.
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History
Are there laws of history?
Historians believe that the past is irreducibly complex and the future wildly unpredictable. Scientists disagree. Who’s right?
Amanda Rees
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Animals and humans
Animal agents
Can they shape their own lives? Or the course of history? It’s time to reconsider the significance of animal agency
Amanda Rees