Andrew Brown (Guardian journalist)
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Andrew Brown is a journalist and writer; editor of the Belief section of the Guardian
's Comment is Free.}} He writes a weekly print column about the Web, along with other work for the newspaper. He is author of Fishing in Utopia which won the 2009 Orwell Prize
, Watching the Detectives, The Darwin Wars: The Scientific Battle for the Soul of Man, and In the Beginning Was the Worm: Finding the Secrets of Life in a Tiny Hermaphrodite. He has also been Religious Affairs correspondent for the Independent
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The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
's Comment is Free.}} He writes a weekly print column about the Web, along with other work for the newspaper. He is author of Fishing in Utopia which won the 2009 Orwell Prize
Orwell Prize
The Orwell Prize used to be regarded as the pre-eminent British prize for political writing.Three prizes are awarded each year: one for a book, one for journalism and another for blogging...
, Watching the Detectives, The Darwin Wars: The Scientific Battle for the Soul of Man, and In the Beginning Was the Worm: Finding the Secrets of Life in a Tiny Hermaphrodite. He has also been Religious Affairs correspondent for the Independent
The Independent
The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...
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Outline of published works
- In his book The Darwin Wars, Brown explores the significance of evolutionary theory on attempts to understand the human condition, including areas which were once exclusively the domain of religion (e.g. p.ix). In doing so he explores some disputes within the science itself, including both "scientists doing philosophy more or less badly", and "philosphers attempting science" (p. 201). He explores within this process, the arguments of two main camps, which he called "Gouldians and Dawkinsians" (p. 57). He begins and ends his book with the life and death of the theoretical biologist George R. PriceGeorge R. PriceGeorge Robert Price was an American population geneticist. Originally a physical chemist and later a science journalist, he moved to London in 1967, where he worked in theoretical biology at the Galton Laboratory, making three important contributions: first, rederiving W.D...
, a close contemporary of William Hamilton, and who struggled with the existential aspects of issues that are explored within Brown's book.