Category: People

Marek Kohn is a science writer on evolution, biology and society. His first two books were on drugs, their cultural history, and their politics. He is the author of seven books and hundreds of articles. He holds an undergraduate degree in neurobiology from the University of Sussex, a PhD from the University of Brighton and…

Lauren Gawne is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Linguistics at SOAS, with a PhD from the University of Melbourne. She is interested in documenting and analysing how people speak and gesture. Lauren’s research focuses specifically on speakers of Tibetic varieties in Nepal, but she is interested in gesture across different cultures. Lauren blogs about language…

Sergey Gavrilets is a mathematical modeller interested in the dynamics of sexual conflict and the origins and evolution of distinctively human cognition, kinship and social organisation.

Andrew Fowler is a field primatologist. He has studied chimpanzees in the Gashaka-Gumti National Park, Nigeria, under the supervision of Professor Volker Sommer (University College London). His research interests include the origins of language, chimpanzee nesting behaviour and the politics of primate conservation.

Marcus Coates is a well-known British performance artist whose work explores what it means to be human by getting into the skin of rabbits, badgers and other nonhuman personalities. Under his influence, humans in ordinary settings can be seen and heard metamorphosing into songbirds. An exhibitor at the London Tate Modern, Coates was a shortlisted…

Margaret Clegg has a degree in Behavioural Science, a Masters and PhD in Biological Anthropology. Her own research includes work on the evolution of human growth particularly at adolescence and the evolution of speech through investigation of anatomical markers such as the hyoid bone. Margaret has taught and researched Biological Anthropology at UCL, UCN and…

Jonathan Chadwick is Director of Az Theatre. He is a founder member of Paddington Arts, a former Artistic Director of the Vanguard Company at the Crucible, Theatre Foundry, Meeting Ground.and Associate Director of the Theatre Royal Stratford East London. He wrote and directed for Foco Novo and directed for 7.84, the Glasgow Citizens’ and the…

Marisa Carnesky is a magical performance artist. Inspired by the ideas of anthropologists Camilla Power and Chris Knight, her experimental research focuses on the ritual, emotional and other conditions necessary if women are to synchronise their menstrual cycles. She has recently completed a practice based PHD at Middlesex University, London.

Hilary Callan has been Director of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland since 2000. From 1993 to 2000 she was Director of the European Association for International Education, based in Amsterdam. An anthropologist by training and graduate of the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (Oxford), she has held academic appointments at…

Professor Joe Cain is Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology in UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies.