In the Blood: God, Genes and Destiny

Professor Steve Jones was born in Wales, educated in Scotland and lives in London. He is Professor of Genetics at the Galton Laboratory at University College London. His first book, 'The Language of the Genes' (1993), won the Rhone-Poulenc Prize for the Best Science Book of the Year. It was based on the Reith Lectures he gave in 1991. He is Co-Editor of the 'Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Human Evolution'.

For the non-creationist this book pulls together all the evidence based strands of evolutionary theory and tries to explain how the species H sapiens sapiens came to be. In his inestimable lucidity, Steve Jones separates genetic fact from genetic fiction and tries to set a balance that is soo often lost in the fundamentalism that surrounds our existance. Each time I read this book I remember much and learn more.