Steve Jones – Year of election 2011

Steve Jones is a geneticist, television presenter and prize-winning author, whose books on evolutionary biology are noted for their wit, keen intelligence, great clarity, mastery of metaphor and eye for the absurd. His latest book, Darwin’s Island: the Galapagos in the Garden of England, was described by The Guardian as ‘exhilarating in the freedom and precision with which it tracks ideas.’ He has won the Royal Society’s Faraday Prize for science explanation, and was President of the Association for Science Education in 2011.