Steve Jones is a Senior Research Fellow at University College, London and has worked at universities in the USA, Australia and Africa. He gave the Reith Lectures in 1991 and presented a BBC TV series on human genetics and evolution in 1996. He appears frequently on radio and television.
An ingenious guidebook to the scientific past of Paris, written in
lucid, erudite prose
*New Statesman*
Every section provides a richly informative guide to the history of
a different scientific subject - from evolution to the rise of the
potato
*Daily Mail*
A wonderful read
*Guardian*
Jones makes his mark as a popular science historian
*New Scientist*
[An] erudite mixture of science and history . . . a wide-ranging
look at the discoveries of the era
*Publishers Weekly*
The outcomes are never what anyone could have guessed, and watching
Jones unfurl them is spellbinding
*Sunday Times*
Jones is an excellent writer of popular science, but he is also
able to cross over seamlessly into lucid discussions of culture and
history
*Mail on Sunday*
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