Lewis Wolpert
Lewis Wolpert is Emeritus Professor in Cell and Developmental Biology at UCL. He most recently published How we Live and Why we Die: The Secret Lives of Cells (Faber and Faber, 2009)
Articles by Lewis Wolpert
How the fear of death gave birth to religion
Death is an inescapable and intrinsic part of human existence and, in the end, there’s absolutely nothing to be scared of.
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A Guinea Pig’s History of Biology
Lewis Wolpert learns the facts of life from plants
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Natural selection
Steven Gould was a great evolutionary biologist, perhaps best known for the 'punctuated equilibrium' idea (coined with Niles Eldredge in 1972), which has been one of the most influential refinements to our understanding of Darwinian evolution.
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