Steven Rose is Professor of Biology at the Open University and joint Professor of Physic at London's Gresham College with his wife, Hilary Rose.
In the current intellectual and political climate, there is a desperate need to return to the real biology of real organisms, including human beings, in a real world. For the general reader wanting to know how this might be done, there can be no better guide than Rose's book * New Scientist * Written with admirable clarity and force... I can't imagine anyone who wanted enlightenment coming away from this book empty-handed * Spectator * Essential reading for anyone interested in biology and evolution * Times Higher Education Supplement * There is no denying his skill as a writer...a flowing, elegant scientific treatise * Observer *