Merlin Donald

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The Immanent Frame
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- Mughal neopaganism and the romance of history
  by Azfar Moin
- Rabid for a peace
  by Suzanne van Geuns
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- Book Review: Transnational Activities of Women-Focused Civil Society Actors in Southern Africa
  by Lilian Namuma S. Kong’ani
- The Notion of the “Veil of Ignorance” in Uganda’s 1995 Constitutional Reforms
  by Nixon Wamamela
- An Interview with Recent PhD Graduate and Next Gen Alumna, Nigel Mxolisi Landa
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Merlin Donald is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Psychology and Faculty of Education, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. A cognitive neuroscientist with a background in philosophy, he is the author of many scientific papers and two influential books: Origins of the Modern Mind: Three stages in the evolution of culture and cognition (Harvard 1991) and A Mind So Rare: The evolution of human consciousness (Norton 2001).