Roger Lewin (born 1944) is a British prize-winning

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and author of 20 books.

Career

Lewin was a staff member of ''

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'' in London for nine years. He went to Washington, D.C. to write for ''

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'' for ten years as News Editor. An example article was "Evolutionary Theory Under Fire", 21, November 1980, vol. 210, pp 883–887. Lewin wrote three books with

Richard Leakey Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (19 December 1944 – 2 January 2022) was a Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist and politician. Leakey held a number of official positions in Kenya, mostly in institutions of archaeology and wildlife cons ...

. He became a full-time freelance writer in 1989 and concentrated on writing books. In 1989 Roger Lewin won the

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for ''Bones of Contention''. In 2000, Lewin formed Harvest Associates with wife Birute Regine for business consulting. Together they wrote, ''The Soul at Work: Unleashing the Power of Complexity Science for Business Success'', Orion Business Books (1999), republished as ''Weaving Complexity & Business: Engaging the Soul at Work'', Texere (2000). He is a member of the Complexity Research Group at the

London School of Economics The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), established in 1895, is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the University of London. The school specialises in the social sciences. Founded ...

. Lewin has two adult sons living in England.

Bibliography

* ''Hormones – Chemical Communicators'', 1972. * ''The Nervous System'', 1974 * ''Origins'', co-authored with

, 1977. * * ''Thread of Life – The Smithsonian Looks at Evolution'', 1982 hardcover, 1991 paperback. * ''In the Age of Mankind – A Smithsonian Book of Human Evolution'', 1988 hardcover. * ''People of the Lake: Mankind & Its Beginnings'', by Leakey and Lewin, 1988 paperback * ''Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human'', with Richard Leakey, 1993. * ''Complexity, Life at the Edge of Chaos'', 1992 hardcover. * ''

Kanzi Kanzi (October 28, 1980 – March 18, 2025), also known by the lexigram (from the character 太), was a male bonobo who was the subject of several studies on great ape language. According to Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, a primatologist who h ...

: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind'', with Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, 1996 paperback. * ''The Sixth Extinction: Patterns of Life and the Future of Humankind'', with

, 1996 (paperback). * ''Bones of Contention: Controversies in the Search for Human Origins'', 1987, second edition 1997,
Danny Yee review
Accounts of several of the most notable controversies in

paleoanthropology Paleoanthropology or paleo-anthropology is a branch of paleontology and anthropology which seeks to understand the early development of anatomically modern humans, a process known as hominization, through the reconstruction of evolutionary kinsh ...

in the past century:

Raymond Dart Raymond Arthur Dart (4 February 1893 – 22 November 1988) was an Australian anatomist and anthropologist, best known for his involvement in the 1924 discovery of the first fossil found of '' Australopithecus africanus'', an extinct hominin ...

and ''

Australopithecus ''Australopithecus'' (, ; or (, ) is a genus of early hominins that existed in Africa during the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene. The genera ''Homo'' (which includes modern humans), ''Paranthropus'', and ''Kenyanthropus'' evolved from some ''Aus ...

''; the Piltdown Man forgery; the '' Ramaphithecus'' affair; and more. Won the 1989 Royal Society prize for science books. * ''Human Evolution: An Illustrated Introduction'', 1999 (4th Edition), 2005 (5th Edition). * ''Patterns in Evolution: The New Molecular View'', 1999 paperback. * ''The Soul at Work: Embracing Complexity Science for Business'', with Birute Regine, 2000 hardcover. * ''Complexity'', 2001 paperback. * ''Weaving Complexity and Business: Engaging the Soul at Work'' by Lewin and Birute Regine, May 2001 paperback, renamed version of the 2000 book. * ''Java Man'' by Carl Swisher, Garniss Curtis, and Lewin, 2002 paperback. * ''Principles of Human Evolution'', by Lewin and Robert A. Foley, 2003 paperback. * * '' Making Waves: Irving Dardik and His Superwave Principle'', 2005

References

External links

*
The Reality of Complexity
by Roger Lewin, with photo.
harvest-associates.com
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