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Mara Hvistendahl is an award-winning writer and journalist specialized in the intersection of science, culture, and policy. A correspondent for Science magazine, she has also written for Harper’s, Scientific American, Popular Science, The Financial Times, and Foreign Policy, among other publications. Proficient in both Spanish and Chinese, she has spent half of the past decade in China, where she has reported on everything from archaeology to Beijing’s space program.

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Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men
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Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives

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When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry

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