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Education University of California, Berkeley Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada Books Yellow fever - black goddess, The runaway brain, Children of Prometheus: The Accel, The Spark of Life: Darwin a, Plagues: Their Origin - Hi | ||
Science Matters: Evolutionary History of the Human Species
Christopher J. Wills (born 1938) is Professor of Biology at UCSD.
He received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. As a Guggenheim Fellow, he worked at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, on protein chemistry and evolution.
He is the author of The Runaway Brain: The Evolution of Human Uniqueness (1994), Children Of Prometheus, The Accelerating Pace Of Human Evolution (1999), The Spark Of Life: Darwin And The Primeval Soup (2001) and The Darwinian Tourist: Viewing the World Through Evolutionary Eyes (late 2010). Children of Prometheus was a finalist for the Aventis Prize in 2000. He received the 1999 Award for the Public Understanding of Science and Technology from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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