Matt Ridley







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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avg rating: 3.99 | 1,981 ratings | 256 reviews | 13 distinct works | 3 fans
Genome: The Autobiography of a... 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 Evo... 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 I... 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 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 Tur... 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 Writ... The Best American Science Writing 2002
by Matt Ridley (Editor), Jesse Cohen (Series Editor)
avg rating 3.76 — 17 ratings — published 2002
2 editions
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Francis Crick: Discoverer of t... 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 Que nos hace humanos
by Matt Ridley
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2006
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Down to Earth: A Contrarian Vi... 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 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)
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"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)
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