Jonathan Silvertown Author & Editor

The book is a collaboration by experts at The Open University, UK. Editor and contributor Jonathan Silvertown is an evolutionary biologist in the Department of Biological Sciences and is internationally known for his research on the evolution of plants; Peter Skelton is a palaeobiologist in the Department ofEarth Sciences and is recognised internationally as an authority on fossil bivalves and their evolution; Monica Grady is a professor of planetary and space science, and one of the world's leading meteorite experts; Caroline Pond is Professor of Comparative Anatomy in the Department of Biological Sciences. Richard Dawkinsdescribed her as A"the zoologists' zoologistA"; David Robinson is a zoologist and evolutionary biologist in the Department of Biological Sciences; Gary Slapper is Professor of Law and has a long-standinginterest in legal battles over the teaching of Darwinism inthe USA; Daniel Nettle worked at the Open University from 2001to 2004, and is currently Reader in the Centre for Evolution and Behaviour at Newcastle University.