Helena Cronin
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Dr Helena Cronin is a noted Darwinian philosopher and rationalist. Co-director of Darwin Centre (Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences, Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Method Department, Darwin@LSE) at the LSE. She achieved prominence with her book, The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today but has published and broadcast widely since.
She is married to another critical and questioning academic, the "radical dentist," Dr. Aubrey Sheiham, professor of dental public health at University College London. Her nephew, Paul Cronin, is a documentary filmmaker and editor of several books about cinema. Her first cousin is Sir Michael Marmot, the noted epidemiologist.
Dr. Cronin is a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association.
