Roger Lewin (born 1944) is a British prize-winning

science writer Science journalism conveys reporting about science to the public. The field typically involves interactions between scientists, journalists, and the public. Origins Modern science journalism dates back to ''Digdarshan'' (means showing the di ...

and author of 20 books.

Career

Lewin was a staff member of ''

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'' in London for nine years. He went to Washington, D.C. to write for ''

Science Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...

'' for ten years as News Editor. An example article was "Evolutionary Theory Under Fire", 21, November 1980, vol. 210, pp 883–887. Lewin wrote three books with

Richard Leakey Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (19 December 1944 – 2 January 2022) was a Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist and politician. Leakey held a number of official positions in Kenya, mostly in institutions of archaeology and wildlife conse ...

. He became a full-time freelance writer in 1989 and concentrated on writing books. In 1989 Roger Lewin won the

Royal Society Prizes for Science Books The Royal Society Science Books Prize is an annual £25,000 prize awarded by the Royal Society to celebrate outstanding popular science books from around the world. It is open to authors of science books written for a non-specialist audience, and ...

for ''Bones of Contention''. In 2000, Lewin formed Harvest Associates with wife Birute Regine for business consulting. Together they wrote, ''The Soul at Work: Unleashing the Power of Complexity Science for Business Success'', Orion Business Books (1999), republished as ''Weaving Complexity & Business: Engaging the Soul at Work'', Texere (2000). He is a member of the Complexity Research Group at the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

. Lewin has two adult sons living in England.

Bibliography

* ''Hormones – Chemical Communicators'', 1972. * ''The Nervous System'', 1974 * ''Origins'', co-authored with

, 1977. * * ''Thread of Life – The Smithsonian Looks at Evolution'', 1982 hardcover, 1991 paperback. * ''In the Age of Mankind – A Smithsonian Book of Human Evolution'', 1988 hardcover. * ''People of the Lake: Mankind & Its Beginnings", by Leakey and Lewin, 1988 paperback * ''Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human'', with Richard Leakey, 1993. * ''Complexity, Life at the Edge of Chaos'', 1992 hardcover. * ''

Kanzi Kanzi (born October 28, 1980), also known by the lexigram (from the character 太), is a male bonobo who has been the subject of several studies on great ape language. According to Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, a primatologist who has studied the ...

: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind'', with

Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Emily Sue Savage-Rumbaugh (born August 16, 1946) is a psychologist and primatologist most known for her work with two bonobos, Kanzi and Panbanisha, investigating their linguistic and cognitive abilities using lexigrams and computer-based keyboa ...

, 1996 paperback. * ''The Sixth Extinction: Patterns of Life and the Future of Humankind'', with

, 1996 (paperback). * ''Bones of Contention: Controversies in the Search for Human Origins'', 1987, second edition 1997,
Danny Yee review
Accounts of several of the most notable controversies in

paleoanthropology Paleoanthropology or paleo-anthropology is a branch of paleontology and anthropology which seeks to understand the early development of anatomically modern humans, a process known as hominization, through the reconstruction of evolutionary kinship ...

in the past century:

Raymond Dart Raymond Arthur Dart (4 February 1893 – 22 November 1988) was an Australian anatomist and anthropologist, best known for his involvement in the 1924 discovery of the first fossil ever found of ''Australopithecus africanus'', an extinct homi ...

and ''

Australopithecus ''Australopithecus'' (, ; ) is a genus of early hominins that existed in Africa during the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene. The genus ''Homo'' (which includes modern humans) emerged within ''Australopithecus'', as sister to e.g. ''Australopi ...

''; the

Piltdown Man The Piltdown Man was a paleoanthropological fraud in which bone fragments were presented as the fossilised remains of a previously unknown early human. Although there were doubts about its authenticity virtually from the beginning, the remains ...

forgery; the '' Ramaphithecus'' affair; and more. Won the 1989 Royal Society prize for science books. * ''Human Evolution: An Illustrated Introduction'', 1999 (4th Edition), 2005 (5th Edition). * ''Patterns in Evolution: The New Molecular View'', 1999 paperback. * ''The Soul at Work: Embracing Complexity Science for Business'', with Birute Regine, 2000 hardcover. * ''Complexity'', 2001 paperback. * ''Weaving Complexity and Business: Engaging the Soul at Work'' by Lewin and Birute Regine, May 2001 paperback, renamed version of the 2000 book. * ''Java Man'' by Carl Swisher,

Garniss Curtis Garniss H. Curtis, (born May 27, 1919 – died December 19, 2012) was a professor of geology at the University of California, Berkeley, geochronologist, volcanologist, geophysicist, and founder of the Berkeley Geochronology Center. In 1960, Curt ...

, and Lewin, 2002 paperback. * ''Principles of Human Evolution'', by Lewin and Robert A. Foley, 2003 paperback. * * '' Making Waves: Irving Dardik and His Superwave Principle'', 2005

References

External links

*
The Reality of Complexity
by Roger Lewin, with photo.
harvest-associates.com
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