Dr Jim Endersby

Jim Endersby has a PhD in the history of science from the University of Cambridge, after which he was a research fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge, before joining the University of Sussex. He is the author of A Guinea Pig’s History of Biology (2007), which one the Royal Society of Literature’s inaugural Jerwood Prize, was long-listed for the Guardian First Book Award and has been translated into Spanish and German.

He was a historical consultant to the BBC TV series “The Story of Science: Power, Proof and Passion”, and has given public lectures on Darwin and the history of biology in Britain, France, Australia and the USA

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