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	Edge: STEVE JONES
		Steve Jones is a highly regarded geneticist and snail biologist.
		Jones finds that climate is also involved and most important that differences in microclimate on the scale of a few inches can alter the behavior and survival of snails of different pattern.
		STEVE JONES is a biologist; Professor of Genetics at the Galton Laboratory of University College London; coeditor (with Robert Martin and David Pilbeam) of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution; author of In the Blood;
	www.edge.org /3rd_culture/bios/jones.html (418 words)

	Coral Bones: From Diadema to Donald Trump: a review of "Coral" by Steve Jones
		Jones follows the genetic clues from archaean DNA to modern humans: a story that enfolds and unfolds in the near eternal youth achieved by Hydra, its cnidarian cousins and the few choice stem cells in every human that are currently the focus of so much controversy.
		Jones comes truly unstuck when he dismisses James Lovelock on the grounds that “his theory resembles that of intelligent design: the denial of evolution on the grounds that complex structures could not emerge without forethought”.
		Jones the geneticist recognises Ovid the poet as a presiding genius of metamorphosis and transformation.
	coralstory.blogspot.com /2007/03/review-of-coral-by-steve-jones.html (2186 words)

	Encyclopedia: Steve Jones (biologist)
		Steve Jones (born March 24, 1944) is a professor of genetics at Galton laboratory of University College London.
		Jones was born in Aberystwyth, Wales, and has degrees from the University of Edinburgh and University of Chicago.
		STEVE JONES is a biologist; Professor of Genetics at the Galton Laboratory of University College London; coeditor (with Robert Martin and David Pilbeam) of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution ; author of In the Blood;
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Steve-Jones-(biologist) (704 words)

	Steve Jones (biologist)
		Steve Jones (born March 24, 1944) is Professor of Genetics at University College, London, a television presenter and a prize-winning author on the subject of biology.
		Jones was born in Aberystwyth, Wales, and has degrees from the University of Edinburgh and University of Chicago.
		Much of his research has been concerned with snails and the light their anatomy can shed on the subject of biodiversity.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/st/Steve_Jones_(biologist).html (65 words)

	Steve Jones (biologist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jones, Steve; Dawkins, Richard; Martin, Robert D.; Pilbeam, David R. The Cambridge Encylopedia of Human evolution, Cambridge University Press.
		Steve Jones View from the lab: dinosaurs, academics and the case against ginger biscuits
		Steve Jones presented In the Blood was a six-part TV series on human genetics first broadcast in 1996, see book of same name in bibliography
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Steve_Jones_(biologist) (335 words)

	Steve Jones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Steve "Snapper" Jones is a former basketball-player and an NBA analyst.
		Steve Jones (musician), formerly of the Sex Pistols
		Steve Jones (presenter), presenter of Channel 4's T4 programme
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Steve_Jones (130 words)

	Daniele M. Procida reviews Y: The Descent of Men by Steve Jones
		Jones does not comment, and it is not at all clear that the issue strikes him.
		But Jones has a defter control of his creations than, say, the unfortunate Dawkins, and while one may have some doubts about what all those metaphors are doing in there they are not substitutes for argument, nor do they obscure more than they illuminate.
		Jones eschews the bland, supposedly ‘scientific’ tones sometimes adopted by social anthropologists and biologists who too earnestly take the example of the physical sciences as their model.
	human-nature.com /nibbs/03/sjones.html (2386 words)

	Amazon.ca: Y The Descent Of Men: Books: Steve Jones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Steve Jones is a brilliant science writer, capable of teasing, cajoling, entertaining and educating the reader without pain.
		Jones, a geneticist and author of Darwin's Ghost, traces the development of maleness from its origins as a parasitic stratagem by which certain microbes forced others to replicate their genes for them, to the dawning age of cloning, which could, in theory, allow women to dispense with men's reproductive services altogether.
		One of the favorite anti-creationist jokes of Steve Jones is to start his lectures with a widely circulated set of pictures of quasi-obvious homologies of George W. Bush and a chimp and then use this to point to the "overwhelming evidence of evolution".
	www.amazon.ca /Y-Descent-Men-Steve-Jones/dp/0316856150 (2380 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: An Immense World of Delight
		Simply put, the biologist can't afford to be anthropocentric, but the human in him or her can't afford not to be.
		Jones is a zoologist, and it is tempting to think that the inspiration for the book came from the hermit crab.
		Jones takes it for granted that all creatures great and small are caught within the meshes of the great evolutionary machine.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2000-06-30/books_feature.html (3336 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii News
		An amusing, down-to-earth scientist and popular speaker, Jones is in Hawaii for the 26th Annual Albert L. Tester Memorial Symposium, presented by the University of Hawaii Department of Zoology.
		Jones is one of the judges for graduate-student talks on their research today and tomorrow at the Japanese Cultural Center.
		Jones was recently in Syria and in Jordan's West Bank, "getting Arabs to spit into tubes" for a project studying the male Y chromosome.
	starbulletin.com /2001/04/11/news/story10.html (881 words)

	Almost like a Whale (Darwin's Ghost) - Steve Jones
		Jones understands and respects Darwin's argument in a way that allows his modern contributions to remain always relevant, even when they seem to wander away from it, and provide the needed support.
		Jones' shockingly says that he never met "a biology undergraduate who has read The Origin of Species", itself a sad show of ignorance and closed-mindedness (as Darwin's book, though not up-to-date, is still a splendid (and well presented) example of the scientific process and the scientist at work -- see our review).
		Born in 1944, Steve Jones is Professor of Genetics at University College, London.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/joness/whale.htm (1717 words)

	LRB \| Andrew Berry : Data Guy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Jones claims on the other hand never to have met a biology undergraduate who has read The Origin of Species, and it may be that Almost like a Whale is his attempt to deal with the fact that the book is widely cited but largely unread.
		Jones cites a sobering 1991 opinion poll which revealed that 100 million Americans believe that 'God created man pretty much in his present form at one time during the last ten thousand years.' So Almost like a Whale could be intended to take over from The Origin of Species as evolution's prime anti-creationist polemic.
		Jones did the noble thing and wrote in sheepishly to point out that part of the quoted paragraph was Darwin.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v22/n03/berr01_.html (2725 words)

	Steve Jones (biologist) - RecipeFacts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Jones, Steve (2000) The Language of the Genes, Flamingo.
		Jones, Steve (1997) In the Blood: God, Genes and Destiny, Houghton Miffin.
		Steve Jones View from the lab: the hard cell
	www.recipeland.com /encyclopaedia/index.php/Steve_Jones_%28biologist%29 (351 words)

	Is the male genetic clock winding down to extinction?
		Jones, a snail biologist and genetics professor at University College in London, explores the past, present and future of males in a provocative book, "Y: The Descent of Men" (Houghton Mifflin, 252 pages, $25).
		Jones' predictions are momentous, but the tone of his book is witty and insouciant, as if he personally isn't losing sleep over what may be wrought in upcoming millions of years.
		Some took it personally, for instance, when Jones wrote that males are biological parasites because they reproduce by worming their way into a larger host and getting it to copy their genes.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /health/133356_male04.html (1360 words)

	Kirsty Wark - Steve Jones - Parasites?
		Jones then goes on to point out that testosterone is bad for the heart whereas oestrogen seems to be rather good for it.
		Steve Jones also goes on to suggest that over the next few million years the Y chromosome is doomed, and that humans will all naturally evolve into the female state.
		These are the same biologists who would claim that there are no significant differences in humans that are not the result of nurture, despite the mountain of evidence demonstrating otherwise.
	www.angryharry.com /esstevejones.htm (2722 words)

	Amazon.com: Y: Books: Steve Jones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Jones' sardonic wit enlivens the molecular foundations of maleness, explaining hormones, baldness, sperm count, and even lineages of bastardy in language that is both educational and entertaining.
		What Mr Jones doesn"t realise is that not all sperm are designed to impregnate, as research has proven that the majority of sperm are in fact soldier sperm designed to seek out a rival males sperm present in a woman and prevent it from fertilizing her egg, much like a game of american football.
		Jones, we have proven nothing about early man other than he is related to apes and monkeys (through DNA study we did this).
	www.amazon.com /Y-Steve-Jones/dp/0349113890 (2894 words)

	Bublos.com, Books ›› Y : The Descent of Men, by Steve Jones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		What Mr Jones doesn"t realise is that not all sperm are designed to impregnate, as research has proven that the majority of sperm are in fact soldier sperm designed to seek out a rival maless sperm present in a woman and prevent it from fertilizing her egg much like a game of american football..
		In the Preface Steve Jones tells that he does not plan to compete with other people with the same name -- the lead guitarist of the Sex Pistols, for example, or the champion golfer, etc. -- but will stick to what he knows, the biology and evolution of males.
		Jones, we have proven nothing about early man other than he is related to apes and monkeys (through DNA study we did this).
	www.bublos.com /isbn/0618139303.html (2152 words)

	Jones at AllExperts
		Jones is a common family name that comes from the term 'Son of John' but can also be attributed to the name 'Jonah' â" a name of Icelandic origins suggesting a Viking connection.
		Lewis Jones* (Patagonia), one of the founders of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia
		*Jones Fracture, a fracture of the fifth metatarsal of the foot
	en.allexperts.com /e/j/jo/jones.htm (1916 words)

	G4 - Feature - Of Snails and Sex
		Steve Jones is fascinated with sex -- for the least titillating of reasons.
		This week's "Big Thinkers" guest, Jones is a biologist -- a malacologist, to be exact -- and he's spent much of his life staring at snails, slugs, and a slew of slow, slimy mollusks.
		Jones is the author of several books on genetics and evolution, including Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated.
	www.g4tv.com /techtvvault/features/34620/Of_Snails_and_Sex.html (408 words)

	BBC News \| Sci/Tech \| Darwin gets a makeover
		Biologist Steve Jones is a brave man. First, he selects Darwin's Origin of Species as the single most important book to have been written this millennium, then he attempts to rewrite it.
		The title is a reference to a quote from Darwin that American fl bears who swim with their mouths open to catch fish could, one day, evolve into whale-like creatures.
		In his updating, Professor Jones has set out to re-write the Origin of Species as if Darwin had written it in 1999 instead of 1859.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/443006.stm (641 words)

	Steve Jones - A Parasite? Bryan Sykes - A Sh*t?
		And if he was a good biologist he would know that parasites are organisms that derive benefits from hosts of a different species while at the same time harming them.
		Jones also goes on to suggest that over the next few million years the Y chromosome is doomed, and that humans will all naturally evolve into the female state.
		Biologists who spread male hatred are surely going to find themselves in deep trouble in the next few years.
	www.angryharry.com /esstevenjones.htm (3389 words)

	Telegraph \| Connected \| View from the lab: setting the pace
		The world's greatest biologist joins the Science Page debate: "I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics; for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense.
		He managed without calculus and might have been even greater with its help; but my guess is that he was better engaged in riding across the Pampas, playing a bassoon to earthworms to test their sensitivity to vibration and, most of all, in just thinking.
		His own subject - evolution - became a haunt of mathematical biologists who constructed an edifice of austere beauty which, alas, was almost useless until we grubby toilers in the vineyard came up with enough ugly facts to populate it.
	www.arts.telegraph.co.uk /connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2002/07/31/ecrlab31.xml&sSheet=/connected/2002/07/31/ixconnrite.html (772 words)

	The Royal Institution of Great Britain
		Every biologist knows that we share around 98%of our DNA sequences with chimpanzees, and that humans and chimps shared a common ancestor around six million years ago.
		Somewhat alarmingly, though, that is very much a minority view in the world as a whole, where various more or less primitive origin myths still hold sway.
		Steve Jones will talk about why biologists believe in evolution and how it works, from viruses to ourselves.
	www.rigb.org /rimain/calendar/detail.jsp?&id=100 (175 words)

	Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated (Steve Jones) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Jones takes adaptionist/genetically-determined evolution as the "truth" and he discards alternative views in a few sentences (in his view "punctuated equilibrium" theories have been rejected....I wonder what Gould would have to say about it...).
		No doubt that the acknowledgement of Lewontin, a radical Harvard biologist, at the first page of the book was the one that fooled me. The book is a tribute to Dawkins' and Spencerian ideas of evolution, not the complex evolution that Lewontin, Gould, Eldrege and others write about.
		The author, Steve Jones, is a genetics professor at University College London, so he is well qualified for this project.
	www.interference.com /webstore/us/product/0345422775.htm (995 words)

	Amazon.com: Y: The Descent of Men: Books: Steve Jones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Jones opens his account with a touch of irony - it was a woman, Nettie Stevens, who identified the male chromosome in 1905.
		Jones' example is expressed in the recognition that all the family lineages since William the Conquerer had died out.
		Jones makes reference to mens genital size and supports his argument by stating that it is reported from a Japanese brothel that the average size is around 5.5 inches?
	www.amazon.com /Y-Descent-Men-Steve-Jones/dp/0618139303 (2964 words)

	Stephen Jay Gould, biologist and writer, dies - 21 May 2002 - New Scientist
		Stephen Jay Gould, the brilliant and controversial evolutionary biologist has died of cancer aged 60.
		Jones compares him to the explorer Christopher Columbus: "Columbus set out to find India, but found the New World.
		Jones told New Scientist that Gould's contribution was as an agitator: "He will be remembered as a mosquito on the backside of biology and a master of popularisation." Dawkins adds, "His powerful voice will echo on for a long time."
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn2306 (494 words)

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