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My new book, The Knowledge Gene was published in Australia and NZ in 2024. It is the culmination of all my work on knowledge systems and memory. It is the scientific evidence humans are all genetically encoded to use our uniquely human skills in music, art, spatial abilities, story and performance to store and convey knowledge - and have been doing so for at least 70,000 years! We all have so much more potential that we are using.

I did a PhD on the way indigenous cultures memorise vast amounts of information when they don't use writing. Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies was published by Cambridge University Press in 2015 and explains the implications for archaeology, offering new interpretations for the purpose of monuments aroun
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Lynne Kelly I don't permit myself writer's block. I write every day. If the words won't come, I do research. That is one of the advantages of writing non-fiction!…moreI don't permit myself writer's block. I write every day. If the words won't come, I do research. That is one of the advantages of writing non-fiction!(less)
Lynne Kelly Hi Alex,

Thank you so much for your interest in "The a Memory Code". If you want the US or UK edition, I am afraid so. But you can get the Australian e…more
Hi Alex,

Thank you so much for your interest in "The a Memory Code". If you want the US or UK edition, I am afraid so. But you can get the Australian edition from Book Depository now. They deliver anywhere in the world.

Please let me know if you need any more information.

Thank you again,

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“Some believers accuse skeptics of having nothing left but a dull, cold, scientific world. I am left with only art, music, literature, theatre, the magnificence of nature, mathematics, the human spirit, sex, the cosmos, friendship, history, science, imagination, dreams, oceans, mountains, love, and the wonder of birth. That’ll do for me.”
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