Colin Tudge

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Colin Tudge (born 22 April 1943) is a British science writer. A biologist by training, he is the author of numerous works on food, agriculture, genetics, and species diversity.

His publications include Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers, a small book explaining how agriculture began. The book is one of a series of long essays by respected contemporary Darwinian thinkers, which were published under the collective title Darwinism Today; the series was inspired by a course of 'Darwin Seminars' which took place at the LSE in London in the late 1990s. [1]

He has also published The Famine Business; Last Animals at the Zoo; The Day Before Yesterday; The Impact of the Gene: from Mendel's peas to designer babies; The Second Creation: Dolly and the age of biological control (with Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell);

The Variety of Life: a survey and a celebration of all the creatures that have ever lived. This is one of the best accessible references for the phylogeny of life, explaining in clear terms the descent and interrelationships of most kinds of organism.

So Shall We Reap: how everyone who is liable to be born in the next ten thousand years could eat very well indeed; and why, in practice, our immediate descendants are likely to be in serious trouble, on the future of agriculture, in which he challenges the current science and technology paradigm and outlines a sustainable way of feeding the population of the world, expected to stabilise at ten billion people by the middle of the 21st Century.

The Secret Life of Trees: How They Live and Why They Matter, was published by Penguin in November 2005.

His latest book is Feeding People is Easy (2007); when agriculture is expressly designed to feed people, all the associated problems seem to solve themselves.

[edit] Bibliography

Feeding People is Easy. Pari Publishing, Italy. 2007.
The Secret Life of Trees'. Allen Lane, London, 2005. Penguin Books, London, 2006. Published as The Tree by Crown, New York, 2006. ISBN 0-713-99698-6

So Shall We Reap: the Concept of Enlightened Agriculture. Allen Lane, London 2003; Penguin Books, London, 2004.

In Mendel's Footnotes: Genes and Genetics from the 19th century to the 22nd'. Jonathan Cape, 2000. Paperback: Vintage, 2002. Published as The Impact of the Gene, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, 2001. ISBN 0-09-928875-3

The Variety of Life: A Survey and a Celebration of All the Creatures That Have Ever Lived. Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 2000. Paperback, March 2002.

Neanderthals, Bandits, and Farmers. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1998. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1999. ISBN 0-297-84258-7

The Day Before Yesterday. Jonathan Cape, London, 1995. Pimlico, London, 1996. Published in the US as The Time Before History: 5 Million Years of Human Impact, Scribner, New York 1996. Touchstone, New York, 1997.

The Engineer in the Garden: Genes and Genetics from the Idea of Heredity to the Creation of Life. Jonathan Cape, London, 1993. Hill & Wang, New York, 1995. Pimlico (Pbk) 1995

Last Animals at the Zoo Hutchinson Radius, London, 1991. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992. Island Press, Washington, 1992.

Global Ecology. Natural History Museum, 1991. Oxford University Press, New York 1991.

Food Crops for the Future. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1988.

The Food Connection. British Broadcasting Corporation, London, 1985.

Future Cook. Mitchell Beazley 1980. Published as Future Food, Harmony Books, New York, 1980.

The Famine Business. Faber and Faber, London 1977. St Martin's Press, New York, 1977. Penguin Books (Pelican), Middlesex, 1979.

Co-authorships

The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological Control'. (co-authored with Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell). Headline, London, 2000. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2000.