Steve Jones

Steve Jones is a geneticist who writes journalism and books on the subject of biology. In 1996 he was awarded the Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize “for his numerous, wide ranging contributions to the public understanding of science in areas such as human evolution and variation, race, sex, inherited disease and genetic manipulation through his many broadcasts on radio and television, his lectures, popular science books, and his regular science column in The Daily Telegraph and contributions to other newspaper media”.

Steve’s books include The Language of the Genes, Darwin’s Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England and the acclaimed Almost Like A Whale: The Origin Of Species.

Steve Jones at The Telegraph