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8 Questions for... Rebecca Hooper

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May 20, 2025
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Rebecca Hooper is a writer and evolutionary biologist with a PhD in animal cognition. From her house in the north isles of Orkney, tucked between the steely North Sea and the wild Atlantic, Rebecca writes about life and death, land and sea, science, art, and finding joy.

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Novelist, essayist and evolutionary biologist with a specialism in animal behaviour and cognition. Based in the Orkney Islands. Rep'd by Laura Williams, Greene & Heaton.
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