Matt Ridley
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February 07, 1958
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Northumberland, The United Kingdom
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The Hon. Matthew White Ridley (born 7 February 1958, in Northumberland) is an English science writer, businessman and aristocrat. Ridley was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford where he received a doctorate in zoology before commencing a career in journalism. Ridley worked as the science editor of The Economist from 1984 to 1987 and was then its Washington correspondent from 1987 to 1989 and American editor from 1990 to 1992.
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley avg rating 4.03 — 824 ratings — published 1999 22 editions |
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley avg rating 3.96 — 619 ratings — published 2000 6 editions |
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The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation by Matt Ridley avg rating 4.02 — 164 ratings — published 1997 7 editions |
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Nature Via Nurture by Matt Ridley avg rating 4.04 — 106 ratings — published 2003 7 editions |
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The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture by Matt Ridley avg rating 3.92 — 88 ratings — published 2004 2 editions |
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The Best American Science Writing 2002 by Matt Ridley , Jesse Cohen avg rating 3.76 — 17 ratings — published 2002 2 editions |
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Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code by Matt Ridley avg rating 3.88 — 16 ratings — published 2006 4 editions |
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Que nos hace humanos by Matt Ridley avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2006 |
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Down to Earth: A Contrarian View of Environmental Problems by Matt Ridley avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1995 |
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Down to Earth II by Matt Ridley avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1996 |
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"Genes are biochemical recipes written in a four-letter alphabet called DNA."
— Matt Ridley (The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature)
— Matt Ridley (The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature)
"A four-letter alphabet called DNA."
— Matt Ridley (The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature)
— Matt Ridley (The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature)
"Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race"
— Matt Ridley (The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature)
— Matt Ridley (The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature)
