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UCL Genetics, Evolution and Environment in the Media
Steve Jones
Steve Jones,
Professor of Genetics is currently at work on a book that completes
the ambitious and perhaps misled scheme to update the whole of
Darwin's scientific writings for the bicentennial of the great
man's birth in 2009. He is the author of popular books on genetics
for specialist and lay audiences. The latest is “Coral:
a Pessimist in Paradise”, which traces the decline and fall
of the reefs and the unexpected science that emerges from the
simple animals that make them.
Steve Jones teaches on our first year undergraduate course "Genes
to Organisms", about genetics and evolution and in our second
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Steve Jones
Above: The Sunday Times Window on Life CD, to which Steve Jones
contributed
Mark Thomas
Mark Thomas
Mark Thomas, Senior Lecturer in Human Genetics, featured in
the recent Channel 4 television series Britain
AD: King Arthur's Britain, and on BBC Radio 4's Today
Program where he discussed the
origins of the people of England.
He has also been involved in television programmes on, among other
subjects, the fate of the lost descendents of George III, the
origins of the Lemba, a tribe in South Africa that claims Jewish
ancestry, and the origins of the Tyrolean Ice Man. He was interviewed
on the following TV programmes in 2007:
* James May's 20th Century Body Fantastic on BBC2
* Horizon - Chimps are Human Too
* 100% English on Channel 4
Mark Thomas teaches molecular genetics to second year, third year
and masters students. Mark's research encompasses human genetics,
genetic studies of human population movements, and studies of
ancient DNA. He is a coauthor on the recent
study of the extinct giant Irish elk, which showed that its
closest living relative is the fallow deer.
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