Scott Solomon

Scott Solomon

Biologist, Professor, and Author of Becoming Martian: How Living in Space Will Change Our Bodies and Minds

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Scott Solomon is a teaching professor of biosciences at Rice University in Houston. He is also a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. His latest book is Becoming Martian: How Living in Space Will Change Our Bodies and Minds. His first book, Future Humans: Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution, was a 2017 Best Book by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is also the host of the podcast Wild World with Scott Solomon and co-writer and co-producer of the series Becoming Martian.

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