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Jones is Professor of Genetics at University College London and has worked at universities in the USA, Australia and Africa. He gave the BBC Reith Lectures in 1991, and presented a successful BBC TV series on human genetics and evolution in 1996. He is a regular columnist for the Daily Telegraph and frequently appears on radio and television. His previous books include The Language of the Genes (which won the 1994 Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize) and In the Blood (shortlisted for the 1997 Rhone-Poulenc). He won the 1997 Royal Society Faraday Medal for the Public Understanding of Science.
Jones has set himself the task of bringing Darwin up to date by writing a new book using the same overall plan and chapter headings as The Origin of Species. As a bonus, he includes a chapter on human evolution - something Darwin himself left for a later book. The result is impressive, but rather artificial, and lacks the immediate appeal of Jones' earlier books, The Language of the Genes and In the Blood. It will have most appeal for someone who is already au fait with the idea of evolution by natural selection, but wants some ammunition with which to convince doubting friends. (Kirkus UK)
