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.

Published Works

• The Language of the Genes (1994)
• Darwin's Ghost (2001)
• The Descent of Men (2002)

Television

• In the Blood

Quote

• "Evolution is to analogy as statues are to birdshit"

Attributed to Jones by Andrew Brown in The Darwin Wars.