Matthew (Matt) Ridley (born February 7, 1958 at Newcastle upon Tyne) (not to be confused with Mark Ridley) is an English science writer. He received a doctorate in zoology from the University of Oxford before commencing a career in science journalism. Ridley worked as a science correspondent for The Economist and The Daily Telegraph. He is the author of four acclaimed works of science popularization: February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about a city in the United Kingdom. ... Mark Ridley (born 1956) is a United Kingdom zoologist and writer on evolution. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification    - by Athelstan AD927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi   - Water (%) Population... Zoology is the biological discipline which involves the study of animals. ... The University of Oxford (often called Oxford University), located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... It has been suggested that The Economist editorial stance be merged into this article or section. ... This article concerns the British newspaper. ...

• 1994 The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
• 1997 The Origins Of Virtue
• 1999 Genome
• 2003 Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes us Human, also later released under the title The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture in 2004

and 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... The Red Queens Hypothesis, Red Queen, Red Queens race or Red Queen Effect is an evolutionary hypothesis to explain the advantage of sex at the level of individuals, and the constant evolutionary arms race between competing species. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Origins Of Virtue is a 1997 popular-science book by Matt Ridley. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Genome: The autobiography of a species in 23 chapters (ISBN 0007635737) is a 1999 popular science book by Matt Ridley, published by Fourth Estate. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• 2006 Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code published in the US on June 2006, September 2006 in the UK. The book is in the new "Eminent Lives" series, published by HarperCollins; it is short, lacks references, and has no index. The authorised, full length scientic biography is being written by Professor Robert Olby of the University of Pittsburgh for 2007 publication.

In these books Ridley explains the ideas that have grown out of the gene revolution in biology. In his commentary, Ridley is relatively unabashed in revealing his personal commitment to a libertarian philosophy, in contrast to Richard Dawkins, who holds similar positions on gene selectionism and atheism, but favors social democracy. 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Dr. Francis Harry Compton Crick OM FRS (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was an English physicist, molecular biologist and neuroscientist, most noted for being one of the four co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953. ... RNA codons. ... This article is about the country in North America. ... Collins was a Scottish printing company founded by a Presbyterian schoolmaster, William Collins, in Glasgow in 1819, in partnership with Charles Chalmers, the younger brother of Thomas Chalmers, minister of Tron Church, Glasgow. ... Robert Olby is a professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. ... This stylistic schematic diagram shows a gene in relation to the double helix structure of DNA and to a chromosome (right). ... Biology is the branch of science dealing with the study of life. ... See also Libertarianism and Libertarian Party Libertarian,is a term for person who has made a conscious and principled commitment, evidenced by a statement or Pledge, to forswear violating others rights and usually living in voluntary communities: thus in law no longer subject to government supervision. ... Clinton Richard Dawkins DSc, FRS, FRSL (known as Richard Dawkins; born March 26, 1941) is an eminent British ethologist, evolutionary theorist, and popular science writer who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. ... Atheism, in its broadest sense, is the absence of theism (the belief in the existence of deities). ... Social democracy is a political ideology emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from supporters of Marxism who believed that the transition to a socialist society could be achieved through democratic evolutionary rather than revolutionary means. ...

Ridley was the first chairman of the International Centre for Life, a science park in Newcastle. Centre for Life The Centre for Life is a “science village” in the heart of the English city Newcastle upon Tyne, located close to Central Station. ... A science park is a property development designed for a concentration of high tech or science related businesses. ...

Ridley is married to the neuroscientist Anya Hurlbert and lives in England. Neuroscience is a field of study that deals with the structure, function, development, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, and pathology of the nervous system, consisting of the myriad nerve pathways running throughout the body. ...

External links

• Matt Ridley's website
• Ridley interviewed for Massive Change Radio in January 2004
• Biography page on Edge.org
• Matt Ridley, "We've never had it so good - and it's all thanks to science," The Guardian, 3 April 2003. Article in newspaper.