Marek Kohn
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Marek Kohn is a British science writer on evolution, biology and society. His first two books were on drugs, their cultural history, and their politics. He is the author of five books and hundreds of articles.[1]
Kohn's recent book, A Reason for Everything (2004), has received widespread praise, including Steve Jones' stating in his Nature review "every evolutionist should read it,"[2] and Andrew Brown,[3] author of the Darwin Wars, writing in his Guardian review, "one of the best science writers we have."[4]
In 1999, Kohn had proposed, together with the archaeologist Steven Mithen, the so-called "sexy hand-axe hypothesis."[5]
[edit] Books
- A Reason For Everything: Natural Selection and the English Imagination (2004)
- As We Know It: Coming to Terms with an Evolved Mind (1999)
- The Race Gallery: The Return of Racial Science (1995; re-released 1996)
- Dope Girls: The Birth of the British Drug Underground (1992; re-released 2003)
- Narcomania: On Heroin (1987)
[edit] References
- ^ Marek Kohn's "What I Do" (at his NTL World website).
- ^ "When giants walked the Earth" (review by Steve Jones, Nature, September 2, 2004, p. 21) [paid or subscriber view only].
- ^ Andrew Brown's "Who I Am" (at his Darwin Wars website).
- ^ "Thinking big: Marek Kohn's study of the men behind Darwinism" (review by Andrew Brown, The Guardian, September 18, 2004).
- ^ Steven Mithen, The Singing Neanderthals, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2005, pp. 188-191.
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