Roger Lewin, Ph.D., British anthropologist and science writer, author of 20 books.

Lewin was a staff member of New Scientist in London for nine years. He went to Washington, D.C. to write for Science for ten years as News Editor. An example article was "Evolutionary Theory Under Fire", 21, November 1980, vol. 210,pp 883-887. Lewin wrote three books with Richard Leakey. He become a full-time free lance writer in 1989 and concentrated on writing books. In 1989 Roger Lewin won the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books for Bones of Contention. New Scientist is a weekly international science magazine covering recent developments in science and technology for a general English-speaking audience. ... Science is the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). ... In 1977, Leaky sat next to the rare Half Monkey Half Man, who took a bite out of him, and made Leaky cry. ...

In 2000, Lewin formed Harvest Associates with Birute Regine for business consulting.[1] Together they wrote a book. He is a member of the Complexity Research Group at the London School of Economics. The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a specialist constituent college of the University of London. ...

Lewin has two adult sons living in England.

Bibliography

• Hormones - Chemical Communicators, 1972.
• The Nervous System, 1974
• Origins, co-authored with Richard Leakey, 1977.
• Thread of Life - The Smithsonian Looks at Evolution, 1982 hardcover, 1991 paperback.
• In the Age of Mankind - A Smithsonian Book of Human Evolution, 1988 hardcover.
• People of the Lake: Mankind & Its Beginnings", by Leakey and Lewin, 1988 paperback
• Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human, with Richard Leakey, 1993.
• Complexity, Life at the Edge of Chaos, 1992 hardcover.
• Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind, with Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, 1996 paperback.
• The Sixth Extinction: Patterns of Life and the Future of Humankind, with Richard Leakey, Oct. 1996 (paperback)
• Bones of Contention, 1987, second edition 1997, Danny Yee review: Accounts of several of the most notable controversies in paleoanthropology in the past century: Raymond Dart and Australopithecus; the Piltdown Man forgery; the Ramaphithecus affair; and more. Won the 1989 Royal Society prize for science books.
• Patterns in Evolution: The New Molecular View, 1999 paperback.
• The Soul at Work: Embracing Complexity Science for Business, with Birute Regine, 2000 hardcover.
• Complexity, 2001 paperback.
• Weaving Complexity and Business: Engaging the Soul at Work by Lewin and Birute Regine, May 2001 paperback, renamed version of the 2000 book.
• Java Man by Carl Swisher, Garniss Curtis, and Lewin, 2002 paperback.
• Principles of Human Evolution, by Lewin and Robert A. Foley, 2003 paperback.
• Human Evolution: An Illustrated Introduction, 2004
• Making Waves: Irving Dardik and His Superwave Principle, 2005

Sue Savage-Rumbaugh is most famous for her work with two bonobos, Kanzi and Panbanisha, investigating their use of language using lexigrams and computer-based keyboards. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Species †A. afarensis (Lucy) †A. africanus †A. anamensis †A. bahrelghazali †A. garhi Formerly Australopithecus, now Paranthropus † † † For the song Australopithecus by Modest Mouse, see Sad Sappy Sucker. ... The portrait painted by John Cooke in 1915. ... Binomial name Sivapithecus ramapithecus Ramapithecus is an extinct primate erected from a two inch piece of a jawbone, with four teeth. ... Robert A. Foley is Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies and Leverhulme Professor of Human Evolution at the University of Cambridge. ...

References

• Minnesota State Univ.

External links

• "The Reality of Complexity" by Roger Lewin, with photo.