Matt Ridley
Matt Ridley's books have been shortlisted for six literary awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (for Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters). His most recent book, The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture, won the award for the best science book published in 2003 from the National Academies of Science. He has been a scientist, a journalist, and a national newspaper columnist, and is the chairman of the International Centre for Life, in Newcastle, England. Matt Ridley is also a visiting professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.
Books Matt Ridley has authored
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The Rational Optimist
by Matt Ridley • July 22, 2021 • Business & Money
“Ridley writes with panache, wit, and humor and displays remarkable ingenuity in finding ways to present complicated materials ...
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How Innovation Works
by Matt Ridley • May 19, 2019 • Engineering & Transportation
Building on his national bestseller The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley chronicles the history of innovation, and how we need ...
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The Evolution of Everything
by Matt Ridley • October 25, 2016 • Business & Money
Human society evolves. Change in technology, language, morality, and society is incremental, inexorable, gradual, and spontaneo...
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Genome
by Matt Ridley • March 26, 2013 • Science & Math
The genome's been mapped.
But what does it mean?Arguably the most significant scientific discovery of the new century, the...
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The Red Queen
by Matt Ridley • April 29, 2003 • Science & Math
Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has to keep running to stay in the same ...
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
by Matt Ridley • September 9, 2021 • Science & Math
Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has to keep running to stay in the same ...
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Nature Via Nurture
by Matt Ridley • September 11, 2021 • Health, Fitness & Dieting
Following his highly praised and bestselling book Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, Matt Ridley has writte...
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The Origins of Virtue
by Matt Ridley • April 1, 1998 • Health, Fitness & Dieting
If, as Darwin suggests, evolution relentlessly encourages the survival of the fittest, why are humans compelled to live in coop...
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Francis Crick
by Matt Ridley • September 12, 2021 • Biographies & Memoirs
Part of the acclaimed Eminent Lives series, Francis Crick is the first biography of the eminent scientist, co-discoverer of the...
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The Agile Gene
by Matt Ridley • July 6, 2004 • Science & Math
Armed with extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley turns his attention to the natur...
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