Roger Lewin

Roger Lewin

:"For the psychiatrist Roger A. Lewin, see the Lewin disambiguation page."

Roger Lewin, Ph.D., British anthropologist and science writer, author of 20 books.

Lewin was a staff member of "New Scientist" in London for nine years. He went to Washington, D.C. to write for "Science" for ten years as News Editor. An example article was "Evolutionary Theory Under Fire", 21, November 1980, [http://dim.com/~jambo/evolution/lewin.html vol. 210,pp 883-887.] Lewin wrote three books with Richard Leakey. He become a full-time free lance writer in 1989 and concentrated on writing books. In 1989 Roger Lewin won the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books for "Bones of Contention".

In 2000, Lewin formed Harvest Associates with Birute Regine for business consulting. [http://www.harvest-associates.com/about/default.html] Together they wrote a book. He is a member of the Complexity Research Group at the London School of Economics.

Lewin has two adult sons living in England.

Bibliography

* "Hormones - Chemical Communicators", 1972.
* "The Nervous System", 1974
* "Origins", co-authored with Richard Leakey, 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: 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 Richard Leakey, Oct. 1996 (paperback)
* "Bones of Contention", 1987, second edition 1997, [http://dannyreviews.com/h/Bones_of_Contention.html Danny Yee review] : Accounts of several of the most notable controversies in paleoanthropology in the past century: Raymond Dart and "Australopithecus"; the Piltdown Man forgery; the "Ramaphithecus" affair; and more. Won the 1989 Royal Society prize for science books.
* "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.
* "Human Evolution: An Illustrated Introduction", 2004
* "Making Waves: Irving Dardik and His Superwave Principle", 2005

References

* [http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/klmno/lewin_roger.html Minnesota State Univ.]

External links

* " [http://www.bizspirit.com/bsj/archive/articles/lewin1.html The Reality of Complexity] " by Roger Lewin, with photo.


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