Matt Ridley

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1. Richard Dawkins

   Author of The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life, Climbing Mount Improbable

2. Matt Ridley

   Author of Genome, The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature, Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human

3. Stephen Jay Gould

   Author of Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, Bully for Brontosaurus, Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

4. Steven Pinker

   Author of The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

5. Daniel C. Dennett

   Author of Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, Consciousness Explained, Freedom Evolves

6. Edward O. Wilson

   Author of Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, The Diversity of Life, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis

7. Jared Diamond

   Author of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal, Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality

8. James Gleick

   Author of Chaos: Making a New Science, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, The Best American Science Writing 2000

9. Carl Zimmer

   Author of Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures, Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea, At the Water's Edge : Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea

10. Steve Jones

    Author of Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated, Y: The Descent of Men, The Language of the Genes

11. James D. Watson

    Author of The Double Helix, DNA: The Secret of Life, Genes, Girls, and Gamow

12. Sean B. Carroll

    Author of Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo, The Making of the Fittest

13. Robert Wright

    Author of The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny

14. Geoffrey Miller

    Author of The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature, Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior

15. Antonio R. Damasio

    Author of Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness

16. Brian Greene

    Author of The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006

17. Ernst Mayr

    Author of What Evolution Is

18. Susan Blackmore

    Author of The Meme Machine

19. Roger Penrose

    Author of The Emperor's New Mind

20. Bryan Sykes

    Author of The Seven Daughters of Eve