Prof. Lewis Wolpert University College London, UK

Lewis Wolpert is Emeritus Professor of Biology as Applied to Medicine in the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology of UCL. His research interests are in the mechanisms involved in the development of the embryo. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1980 and awarded the CBE... read morein 1990. His most recent book Six Impossible Things before Breakfast: the Evolutionary Origins of Belief was published by Faber in 2006.