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Professor Peter McGuffin CBE FMedSci is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatric Genetics at King's College, London, and previously Dean of the Institute of Psychiatry and Director of the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre there. His research background is in the
Tristram Wyatt is a scientist and award-winning author. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, an emeritus fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford, and a visiting lecturer at University College London.
How can we find the best explanation of what we observe? Why do human beings enjoy pondering puzzles, such as the meaning of life? We can we learn much from Dorothy L. Sayers, whose detective novels and religious writings saw human beings as searching for 'patterns' in life.