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Dr Colin Tudge PhDColin Tudge read zoology at Peterhouse, Cambridge in the early 1960s and ever since has earned a living by writing, first for a variety of magazines including Farmer's Weekly and New Scientist (where he was features editor), and then for BBC Radio 3, where he presented his own programme (at first called 'Science on Three', and then 'Spectrum').
He has been freelance since 1990. His first book was published in 1977 -- The Famine Business, on the shortcomings of agricultural industrialisation -- and a dozen or so others have followed, on aspects of food and farming, genetics, evolution, and conservation.
In recent years he has also written for The Independent, The Times, The Daily Mail, The New Statesman, The Royal Shakespeare Company and The Archbishop's Council. He has lectured world wide, not least on a recent British Council tour of New Zealand and China.
More and more he is concerned with the philosophy of science: what science is; its relationship to the arts and to religion; and matters of morality.
Colin Tudge lives in Oxfordand is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Philosophy at the London School of Economics. He has three grown-up children: two daughters and a son.
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PUBLISHED BOOKS The Famine Business. Faber and Faber, London 1977. St Martin's Press, New York, 1977. Penguin Books (Pelican), Middlesex, 1979. Hungeren som levebrod, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo, 1979 Home Farm (co-authored with Michael Allaby). Macmillan, London, 1977. Sphere Books, London, 1979 Future Cook . Mitchell Beazley 1980. Published as Future Food Harmony Books, New York, 1980. Morgondagens mat, Oversattning Gull Brunius, Sweden, 1981 The Food Connection . British Broadcasting Corporation, London, 1985 Food Crops for the Future. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1988 Global Ecology. Natural History Museum, 1991. Oxford University Press, New York 1991. Last Animals at the Zoo. Hutchinson Radius, London, 1991. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992. Island Press, Washington, 1992. Letzte Zuflucht Zoo, Spektrum Akademischer, 1993. Rowohlt, Hamburg, 1998. Also in Japanese. Short-listed for 1993 Rhone Poulenc Science Book of the Year award. The Engineer in the Garden: Genes and Genetics from the Idea of Heredity to the Creation of Life. Jonathan Cape, London, 1993. Hill & Wang, New York, 1995. Wir Herren der Schopfung, Spektrum Akademischer, Heidelberg, 1994. Also in Israeli. Short-listed for 1994 Rhone Poulenc Science Book of the Year award. The Day Before Yesterday. Jonathan Cape, London, 1995. Pimlico, London, 1996. Published in the US as The Time Before History Scribner, New York 1996. Touchstone, New York, 1997. Winner of the BP Conservation Book Prize 1996. Neanderthals, Bandits, and Farmers. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1998. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1999. The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological Control (co- authored with Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell). Headline, London, 2000. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, 2000. The Variety of Life: A Survey and a Celebration of All the Creatures That Have Ever Lived. Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 2000. IN PRESS In Mendel's Footnotes: An introduction to the science and technologies of genes and genetics from the 19th century to the 22nd. Jonathan Cape.