Colin Tudge

Why Genes Are Not Selfish and People Are Nice: A Challenge to the Dangerous Ideas that Dominate our Lives

by Colin Tudge

The modern world is dominated by ideas that are threatening to kill us: that life is one long battle from conception to grave; that all creatures, including human beings, are driven by their selfish DNA; that...

Engineer In The Garden

by Colin Tudge

Today we are developing a science that could change the world - for good or ill - more quickly and more profoundly than ever before. The science of genetics promises - or threatens - nothing less than the creation...

The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter

by Colin Tudge

There are redwoods in California that were ancient by the time Columbus first landed, and pines still alive that germinated around the time humans invented writing. There are Douglas firs as tall as skyscrapers,...

The Bird: A Natural History of Who Birds Are, Where They Came From, and How They Live

by Colin Tudge

• How are birds so good at flying and navigating?

• Why are birds so like mammals– and yet so very different?

• Did birds descend from dinosaurs, and if so, does that mean birds are dinosaurs?

• How...

The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor

by Colin Tudge & , Josh Young

For more than a century, scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree and have grappled with its complications. Now, with an astonishing new discovery, everything we thought we knew about primate origins...