Rutherford, Adam: - Adam Rutherford is a geneticist, science writer, and broadcaster.
He is also the author of How to Argue with a Racist, an incisive guide to What modern genetics can and can\'t tell us about Human difference
The Book of Humans, a new evolutionary history that explores the profound paradox of the Human animal
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction; and Creation, on the origin of life and synthetic biology, which was short-listed for the Wellcome Book Prize..
As well as writing for the science pages of The Guardian , he has written and presented many award-winning series and programs for the BBC, including the flagship weekly Radio 4 program Inside Science, The Cell for BBC Four, and Playing God (on the rise of synthetic biology) for the leading science series Horizon .
He studied genetics at University College London, and during his PhD on the developing eye, he was part of a team that identified the first known genetic cause of a form of childhood blindness.
Rutherford, Adam: - Adam Rutherford is a geneticist, science writer, and broadcaster