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Colin Hiram Tudge (born 22 April 1943) is a British biologist,
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 d ...
and broadcaster.
Tudge was born and brought up in
south London and attended
Dulwich College
Dulwich College is a 2–19 Independent school (United Kingdom), independent, Day school, day and boarding school for Single-sex education, boys in Dulwich, London, England. As a Public school (United Kingdom), public school, it began as the Col ...
, from where he won a scholarship to
Peterhouse, Cambridge, studying zoology and English. In his career, he has worked for
World Medicine, ''
Farmers' Weekly'' and ''
New Scientist
''New Scientist'' is a magazine covering all aspects of science and technology. Based in London, it publishes weekly English-language editions in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia. An editorially separate organisation publish ...
'', before becoming a freelance writer.
[https://www.newscientist.com/author/colin-tudge/3/] In the 1980s he was a regular broadcaster for the
BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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, including the
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC that replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. It broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history from the BBC' ...
science series ''Spectrum''; he wrote and presented ''The Food Connection''; he made one-off documentaries and guest appearances.
He lives in
Oxford
Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ...
with his second wife, Ruth West. He was married to Rosemary (née Shewan) and had three children, Amanda, Amy and
Robin, the last being an author of political works.
National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C1672/12) with Colin Tudge in 2016 for its Science and Religion collection held by the British Library.
[National Life Stories, 'Tudge, Colin (1 of 10) National Life Stories Collection: Science and Religion', The British Library Board, 2016]
Retrieved 9 October 2017
Works
* ''Why Genes are Not Selfish and People are Nice: A Challenge to the Dangerous Ideas that Dominate Our Lives.'' Edinburgh, 2013. Floris Books. . Argues that, contrary to many popular ideas, humans are not selfish but naturally cooperative, and that the universe is more than just 'stuff' for us to use at will.
* ''Consider the Birds: How They Live and Why They Matter.'' London, 2008. Penguin. Explores various aspects of the life of birds from their migrations to their complicated family lives, their differing habitats and survival techniques to the secrets of flight, it discusses how birds live, why they matter, and whether they really are dinosaurs.
* ''Feeding People is Easy.'' Pari Publishing, Italy. 2007. When agriculture is expressly designed to feed people, all the associated problems seem to solve themselves.
* ''The Secret Life of Trees.'' Allen Lane, London, 2005, . Penguin Books, London, 2006. Published as ''The Tree'' by Crown, New York, 2006.
* ''So Shall We Reap: the Concept of Enlightened Agriculture.'' Allen Lane, London 2003; Penguin Books, London, 2004. An alternative title is ''So Shall We Reap: how everyone who is liable to be born in the next ten thousand years could eat very well indeed; and why, in practice, our immediate descendants are likely to be in serious trouble'', on the future of agriculture, in which he challenges the current science and technology paradigm and outlines a
sustainable way of feeding the
population of the world, expected to stabilise at ten billion people by the middle of the 21st Century.
* ''In Mendel's Footnotes: Genes and Genetics from the 19th century to the 22nd.'' Jonathan Cape, 2000. Paperback: Vintage, 2002. Published as ''The Impact of the Gene'', Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, 2001.
* ''The Variety of Life: A Survey and a Celebration of All the Creatures That Have Ever Lived.'' Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 2000. Paperback, March 2002. An accessible
phylogeny
A phylogenetic tree (also phylogeny or evolutionary tree Felsenstein J. (2004). ''Inferring Phylogenies'' Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA.) is a branching diagram or a tree showing the evolutionary relationships among various biological spe ...
of life, explaining in clear terms the descent and interrelationships of most kinds of organism.
* ''
Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers.'' Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1998. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1999. . A small book explaining how agriculture began. The book is one of a series of long essays by respected contemporary
Darwinian
Darwinism is a theory of biological evolution developed by the English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) and others, stating that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that ...
thinkers, which were published under the collective title ''
Darwinism Today''; the series was inspired by a course of 'Darwin Seminars' which took place at the
London School of Economics
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a public university, public research university located in London, England and a constituent college of the federal University of London. Founded in 1895 by Fabian Society members Sidn ...
(LSE) in the late 1990s
* ''The Day Before Yesterday.'' Jonathan Cape, London, 1995. Pimlico, London, 1996. Published in the US as ''The Time Before History: 5 Million Years of Human Impact,'' Scribner, New York 1996. Touchstone, New York, 1997.
* ''The Engineer in the Garden: Genes and Genetics from the Idea of Heredity to the Creation of Life.'' Jonathan Cape, London, 1993, . Hill & Wang, New York, 1994, . Pimlico (Pbk) 1995
* ''Last Animals at the Zoo.'' Hutchinson Radius, London, 1991. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992.
Island Press
Island Press is a nonprofit, environmental publisher based in Washington, D.C., United States, that specializes in natural history, ecology, conservation, and the built environment. Established in 1984, Island Press generates about half of its r ...
, Washington, 1992.
* ''Global Ecology.'' Natural History Museum, 1991. Oxford University Press, New York 1991.
* ''Food Crops for the Future.'' Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1988.
* ''The Food Connection.''
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, London, 1985.
* ''Future Cook.'' Mitchell Beazley 1980. Published as ''Future Food'', Harmony Books, New York, 1980.
* ''The Famine Business.'' Faber and Faber, London 1977. St Martin's Press, New York, 1977. Penguin Books (Pelican), Middlesex, 1979.
Co-authorships
* ''The Second Creation:
Dolly and the Age of Biological Control.'' (co-authored with
Ian Wilmut
Sir Ian Wilmut, OBE FRS -- FMedSci FRSE (born 7 July 1944) is an English embryologist and Chair of the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He is best known as the leader of the research group that in 1996 ...
and
Keith Campbell). Headline, London, 2000. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2000.
* ''Home Farm.'' (co-authored with
Michael Allaby
John Michael Allaby is an Aventis Junior prize-winning author. He was born on 18 September 1933 in Belper, Derbyshire in England.
He was a police cadet from 1949 to 1951. After that he served in the RAF from 1951 to 1954, becoming a pilot. Af ...
). Macmillan, London, 1977. Sphere Books, London, 1979.
References
External links
Colin Tudge Personal WebsiteThe Campaign for Real Farmingfounded by Colin and Ruth Tudge in 2008
Colin Tudge's video talksat
IAI TV
* Colin Tudge,
Chris Leaver and
Tony Trewavas (2003)
"Brave new world?" ''
New Scientist
''New Scientist'' is a magazine covering all aspects of science and technology. Based in London, it publishes weekly English-language editions in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia. An editorially separate organisation publish ...
'', 178, 44-47f
* Colin Tudge
"Bad for the Poor, Bad for Science" ''
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...
'', 20 February 2004
* Colin Tudge: lecture to the
Soil Association
The Soil Association is a British registered charity. The organisation activities include campaigning – against intensive farming, for local purchasing and public education on nutrition – and certification of organic foods. It was establ ...
12 July 200
“Can Organic Farming feed the world?”
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1943 births
Living people
British science writers
People educated at Dulwich College
People from London