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Encyclopedia > Colin Tudge

Colin Tudge (born 22 April 1943) is a biologist by training and a British science writer who 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] April 22 is the 112th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (113th in leap years). ... 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers: How Agriculture Really Began (ISBN 0297842587) is a book by the British science writer Colin Tudge. ... Charles Darwin Darwinism is a term used for various processes related to the ideas of Charles Darwin, particularly concerning evolution and natural selection. ... The London School of Economics and Political Science, often called the London School of Economics or the LSE, is one of the worlds major specialist universities in economics and social sciences. ...


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; 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. His latest book is The Secret Life of Trees, to be published by Penguin in November 2005. hi Sustainability is a systemic concept, relating to the continuity of economic, social, and environmental aspects of human society. ... The world population is the total number of humans alive on the planet Earth at a given time. ...


Bibliography

  • Colin Tudge In Mendel's Footnotes ISBN 0099288753 book about Gregor Mendel

Gregor Johann Mendel Gregor Johann Mendel (July 22, 1822 – January 6, 1884) was an Austrian monk who is often called the father of genetics for his study of the inheritance of traits in pea plants. ...

External link

  • Colin Tudge Biography
  • Colin Tudge, Chris Leaver and Tony Trewavas(2003) Brave new world? New Scientist 178, 44-47f
  • Colin Tudge: Bad for the Poor, Bad for Science. Guardian newspaper article 20 Feb 2004
  • Colin Tudge: lecture to the Soil Association 12 July 2005 “Can Organic Farming feed the world?”

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Colin Tudge (1378 words)
Science writer Colin Tudge was born on 22 April 1943 in London, and was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge.
Colin Tudge cut his teeth as a science writer on the New Scientist at a time when the magazine had shifted from being an advocate of scientific gee-whizzery to a fairly severe critic of mainstream science, in the environmental years following the 1972 Stockholm environmental conference.
Tudge suggests that hunter-gathering and farming co-existed for a long time - as in the tale of Cain and Abel (and it was the farmer who was the murderer, not thehunter) but that just as computers are wiping out old ways of doing things once farming began its logic was remorseless, even if grim.
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