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	Colin Tudge
		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.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors?p=auth02D5P340912627360 (1378 words)

	Molded by our genes - Nature Genetics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This aspect is facilitated by Tudge's dry sense of humor and his insight into the effects of cultural, religious and political environments on the approach to, as well as the interpretation of, these critical scientific questions.
		Tudge also convincingly reasons that although certain genes may predispose us to specific diseases, the fact that so many genes are pleotropic in nature suggests that these same genes might prove to be otherwise beneficial; sickle-cell hemoglobin, for instance, provides resistance to malarial infection.
		With this book, Colin Tudge accomplishes something fairly rare: he has not only introduced us to the ethical questions thrown into prominence by the emerging technologies of molecular cloning and genomics, but has given us the tools to understand why these questions are so crucial to address.
	www.nature.com /cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/ng/journal/v30/n2/full/ng0202-137.html (989 words)

	Christians and animal welfare in zoos
		Colin Tudge notes that there was a connection between `Christian Europe' and the `final consolidation of thought and experiment'represented by the rise of science.
		Tudge considers this reasoning to be specious and declares `the welfare of animals in captivity must be foremost in the minds of all curators'.
		Colin Tudge's emphasis on the pragmatic character of the Christian Way is a challenge to us all.
	www.biblicalcreation.org.uk /creation_environment/bcs005.html (761 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers (Darwinism Today S.): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Colin Tudge argues against the traditional belief that agriculture began in the Middle East a mere 10,000 years ago and then spread out around the world.
		Colin Tudge is the well-known author of a number of semi-popular books for adults in the general area of anthropology and evolution.
		Tudge is on solid ground in negating the "abrupt flowering" of modern humans and agriculture in the Middle East.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0297842587 (1787 words)

	Amazon.com: The TIME BEFORE HISTORY: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Colin Tudge is a concerned man. Constructing one of the most complete pictures of human evolution's course, he draws on geology, meteorology and biology in setting a framework.
		Tudge's concern about human impact on the environment is the theme of his other works, but this one rests on a solid foundation of evolutionary biology.
		Tudge also provides a lot of interesting theories and information regarding the spread of not only Homo sapiens into the world but Homo erectus before him; also theories as to what happened to the Neanderthals and if they were a seperate species or not are detailed as well.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684830523?v=glance (3217 words)

	- Book Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tudge provides a wealth of evidence to show how they promote farming practices which are biologically unsound, destroy the environment, shatter rural communities, force farmers off their land into vast cities of 20 million people, and (for Tudge is a gourmet as well as an agronomist) press us into eating poor food.
		Tudge’s book is full of fascinating historical items, but they are peppered around the book where they are felt necessary to support arguments, while the flow of historical narrative, which allows the reader to assess what is happening and why, gets obscured.
		Tudge is slightly disparaging of the demonstrators at earlier WTO meetings in Seattle and Genoa.
	www.thetablet.co.uk /cgi-bin/book_review.cgi?past-00149 (1117 words)

	The Impact of the Gene : From Mendel's Peas to Designer Babies By Colin Tudge
		If Tudge thinks something is good then he projects that on to Mendel without bothering to show where Mendel actually said what Tudge claims Mendel thought.
		Tudge even tries to demolish Sir Ronald A. Fisher's claim that Mendel's numbers were too good to be true.
		Colin Tudge is the author of, most recently, The Variety of Life: A Survey and a Celebration of All the Creatures That Have Ever Lived and The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological Control, with Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell.
	www.2think.org /gene_impact.shtml (2591 words)

	Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers - Colin Tudge
		Colin Tudge's small book barely mentions Darwin, though the conclusions he reaches are, indeed, shaped by Darwinism.
		Tudge paints an interesting Darwinian picture of the forces that moved man towards agriculture (as opposed to trying to survive merely on whatever was at hand), and he demonstrates that it was possible for this transition to take place earlier than is generally thought.
		Tudge's brief account is thoughtful and entertaining, and he makes a good case for his theory.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/darwinc/datlse2.htm (601 words)

	Baltimore City Paper: ARTS The Impact of the Gene: From Mendel's Peas to Designer Babies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Colin Tudge's The Impact of the Gene is the latest book attempting to explain the hubbub over genetics.
		By the time Mendel's and Darwin's ideas were fully digested by the scientific community, all that was left to do was find the mechanism that carries traits, which James Watson and Francis Crick did in 1953 with their double-helix model of the DNA molecule.
		Tudge's assessment of the impact genetic research may have--from genetically modified crops and stem-cell research to the possibility of eugenics--feels tacked on.
	www.citypaper.com /arts/review.asp?id=1898 (484 words)

	Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers - FreeEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In Neanderthals Bandits and Farmers Colin Tudge offers an explanation for the beginning of the population explosion.
		Tudge explains that farming was not suddenly invented 10,000 years ago, but had existed as what he called proto-farming or hobby farming for at least 30,000 years earlier.
		The new area was less able to support these immigrants as hunter gatherers, and they were forced to increase they labors to extend their use of farming in order to to maintain their population.
	openproxy.ath.cx /ne/Neanderthals_Bandits_and_Farmers.html (269 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Variety of Life: A Survey and a Celebration of All the Creatures That Have Ever Lived: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Colin Tudge is a well-known British science writer, whose last book was Neanderthals, Bandits, and Farmers.
		Tudge makes it absolutely fascinating and if the reader perseveres with the first few chapters where he slowly and steadily build a fair technical understanding so that you will get past words like 'polyphyletic' without blinking.
		Colin Tudge has done the impossible, and synthesised the mountain of rapidly changing data about evolutionary history into a single, clearly written volume.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0198604262 (1642 words)

	BrothersJudd.com - Review of Colin Tudge's The Impact of the Gene : From Mendel's Peas to Designer Babies
		This was left to Gregor Mendel, the hero of Tudge's book, whose experiments on peas, carried out in a monastery garden in Brno from 1856 to 1864, demonstrated that certain traits were inheritable by offspring and produced mathematical data on the likelihood that these traits would be inherited, establishing the initial laws of heredity.
		Tudge conveys his own adoration of them, particularly Mendel, and suggests that all of biology since is merely "Footnotes to Mendel", which was the title of the book in Britain.
		Tudge seeks to assure us, or more probably himself, that our increasing technological power has always required us to take increasing responsibility for that power and that such should continue to be the case.
	www.brothersjudd.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/252 (3376 words)

	Books \| Roots of destruction
		Tudge's book offers a broader sweep which puts our food system in its historical and philosophical context.
		He has published some of the ideas before but this is the magnum opus and it is a huge and significant work, a wake-up call to politicians, who are fiddling while our prospects of survival burn.
		Tudge, a zoologist by training and fellow at the centre of philosophy at the London School of Economics, combines an eclectic mind with analytical powers and the humane sweep of a political philosopher.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4756413-99939,00.html (1398 words)

	Dino Land Book Reviews: The Variety of Life
		Tudge, a London zoologist and graduate of Cambridge University, is a world renowned expert on biology and natural history.
		Like any good author, Tudge makes a point of proving his claims, and by the end of the book, even the most outwardly detestable hater of classification is likely to be swayed.
		Of course, Tudge could not devote space to all of them individually, but he does mention and discuss every single order of organisms known to man, from the earliest flowering plant to the most recent primate human ancestor.
	www.geocities.com /CapeCanaveral/Galaxy/8152/thevarietyoflife.html (544 words)

	Colin Tudge’s latest book makes a powerful case for reshaping the future of food production
		Tudge proposes that if food production were designed to feed people, rather than make profit, there would be no problem.
		The answer, says Tudge, is because sustainable systems built on variety and rotation have been swept away in favour of Western-style monoculture.
		Tudge is not opposed to science, but profoundly sceptical of the role of scientific intervention in complex and 'commonsense' agricultural systems that have built up over thousands of years.
	www.hero.ac.uk /uk/inside_he/archives/2003/how_does_your_garden_grow5479.cfm?view=print (849 words)

	Fortean Times Reviews - In Mendel's Footnotes
		Colin Tudge is the science writer's science writer: someone who can be relied upon to turn out a well-researched, readable book or article on anything he cares to turn his mind to, with a touch of the offbeat to catch the attention.
		In setting out his path through genetics, Tudge begins with a summary of the life of Mendel, genetics' acknowledged founder, a 19th-century monk whose work was recognised only years after his death and who, despite his importance, is still a shadowy figure.
		His work in determining the basic mechanisms of genetics is so pivotal that everything in the field since is, literally, a footnote to this, hence the title.
	www.forteantimes.com /review/mendel.shtml (387 words)

	Edge: COLIN TUDGE
		COLIN TUDGE is a three-time winner of the Glaxo/ABSW Science Writer of the Year Award.
		His career as a science writer includes serving as Features Editor at New Scientist, his own science program, Spectrum, on BBC Radio and freelance writing for The Independent, The Times, Natural History and The New Statesman.
		He is the author of ten previous books, including Last Animals at the Zoo; The Time Before History; The Impact of the Gene; Last Animals at the Zoo; and coauthor (with Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell) of The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological Control.
	www.edge.org /3rd_culture/bios/tudge.html (98 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Variety Of Life: a Survey and a Celebration Of All the Creatures That Have Ever Lived (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Colin Tudge, a well-known British science writer, has training in whole animal biology and a self-proclaimed love for the natural-historical foray among our fellow creatures.
		Tudge imbues his work with a contagious passion for an area of biology that has dropped in profile in recent decades.
		Colin Tudge has produced a remarkable book that captures the complexities of the Earth's biota.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0198604262 (1711 words)

	Last Animals at the Zoo by Colin Tudge
		Tudge, a scientific fellow of the Zoological Society of London, believes that it can.
		"Colin Tudge's tough-minded defense of conservation and zoos is full of persuasive moral philosophy that properly accommodates opposing views.
		Tudge ruminates captivatingly on utilitarian arguments for conservation.
	www.serve.com /ecobooks/books/zoo.htm (906 words)

	JS Online: Exaggerated tone, ghost of Mendel burden 'Impact of the Gene' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It returns to prominence when Tudge moves from description to advocacy in a chapter on the emerging science - if it is indeed a science - of Evolutionary Psychology.
		The closing chapters and the epilogue take readers beyond the science of genetics to the emerging technologies of genetic engineering, including the inevitable questions of ethics or, more simply stated but complex in implication, what is right and wrong.
		Tudge intends for him to cast light on the controversial issues, but many readers will find that the Mendelian presence, instead, turns a spotlight on the author and his penchant for overstatement.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/books/reviews/aug01/bk.gene05080301.asp?format=print (438 words)

	Ockham's Razor:7 November 2004 - Food Production - Part One
		Robyn Williams: Colin Tudge studied Zoology at Cambridge and then became a reporter with The New Scientist magazine.
		Colin Tudge: Farming occupies most of the fertile land in the world.
		The government effectively is a part of the agribusiness, and in order to stop these vast subsidies, you would have to rethink United States economy and rethink United States politics from first principles.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/science/ockham/stories/s1235384.htm (1950 words)

	Colin Tudge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Colin Tudge is author of So Shall We Reap, on the state of world food.
		The dogma of profit led to GM crops; it could spell global disaster
		If Britain and the world had agricultural policies that truly were designed for the benefit of humankind - to feed everybody well, provide employment and look after the environment - they might be useful in many ways; and this week’s Monsanto decision to give up on GM wheat might be regrettable.
	www.selvesandothers.org /view541.html (79 words)

	Harvard University Press/The Second Creation
		Colin Tudge is a three-time winner of the Glaxo / ABSW Science Writer of the Year Award.
		The cloning of Dolly in 1996 from the cell of an adult sheep was a pivotal moment in history.
		Written with award-winning science writer Colin Tudge, The Second Creation is a landmark work that details the most exciting and challenging scientific discovery of the twentieth century.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/WILSEX.html (180 words)

	Biblio: The Impact of the Gene : From Mendel's Peas to Designer Babies by Tudge, Colin: Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		"Tudge's celebration of Mendel's life and work is enjoyable and informative.
		With his deceptively simple experiments on peas in a monastery garden in Brno, Gregor Mendel was the first to establish the basic laws of heredity, laws from which the principles of modern genetics can be drawn.
		In this fascinating account, acclaimed science writer Colin Tudge traces the influence on science of Mendel's extraordinary ideas, from the 1850s to the present day, and goes on to ask what might happen in the coming century and beyond.
	www.biblio.com /books/7996579.html (475 words)

	Royal Society \| Events diary \| Do scientists need to think more deeply?
		However, scientists are citizens too and outspoken critic, Colin Tudge, argues that - when it comes to the general human pursuits of politics and religious beliefs - scientists need to think more deeply than is their custom.
		For all our sakes Colin believes the education of scientists must be more broadly based.
		Colin Tudge read zoology at Cambridge and then became a writer, first for magazines, including 'New Scientist', and then for the BBC.
	www.royalsoc.ac.uk /event.asp?id=2953 (125 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Last Animals at the Zoo: How Mass Extinction Can Be Stopped (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tudge introduces us to the science of captive breeding, which combines molecular biology with reproductive physiology.
		Tudge describes successful programs with Arabian oryx, red wolf, Pere David's deer and golden lion tamarind and discusses other programs in progress and experimental breeding techniques.
		Tudge, a scientific fellow of the Zoological Society of London, delves deeply into reasons why we must conserve animals and...
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1559631589 (502 words)

	So Shall We Reap - Colin Tudge - Penguin UK
		But, Colin Tudge reveals, there is an alternative.
		Tudge goes further, showing how junk politics have turned the adage “agriculture is just a business like any other” into a pernicious new global orthodoxy’
		The archaeological and historical record is crammed with examples of policy outstripping biological possibility, or sometimes of plain apathy; and as the Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana observed, 'Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat its mistakes'.
	www.penguinbooks.co.uk /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0141009500,00.html?sym=EXC (3220 words)

	Colin Tudge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Colin Tudge is a science journalist who lives with his wife and three children in London.
		Educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge University, he has contributed to such magazines and newspapers as New Scientist, World Medicine, Wildlife Conservation, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Independent, and the Guardian.
		A Fellow of the Zoological Society of London since 1972 and a member of its council since 1992, Tudge is a founding member of the London Zoo Fellows' Reform.
	www.ecobooks.com /authors/tudge.htm (154 words)

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