Lucy Cooke 

Cooke is the author of The Truth About Animals, which was short-listed for the Royal Society Prize, and the New York Times bestselling A Little Book of Sloth. She is a National Geographic explorer, TED talker, and award-winning documentary filmmaker with a master’s degree in zoology from Oxford University. Her latest book is Bitch: A Revolutionary Guide to Sex, Evolution and the Female Animal

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Myths About Motherhood in the Animal Kingdom

Maternal instinct is a long-standing myth that belittles the complexities of motherhood, writes Lucy Cooke.

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