Loneliness is a recent invention: Telmo Pievani at TEDxLakeComo

Thinker, professor of philosophy of science at the University of Milano-Bicocca, author of a great number of publications, director of Pikaia, the Italian portal of evolution (www.pikaia.eu), secretary of the scientific committee of the Genoa's Science Festival of and scientific director of Rome's Festival of Science, member of editorial boards of prestigious Italian and international scientific magazines, he has always been committed , as scientist and disseminator, to investigate and reflect on the mechanisms and history of evolution.

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