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Jonnie Hughes

Jonnie Hughes
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Jonnie Hughes

Jonnie Hughes is a science writer and filmmaker with over twelve years experience in communicating science to a broader public on radio, television, in print, and face-to-face. He is an award-winning writer and documentary filmmaker and regular contributor to Geographical Magazine, BBC Wildlife Magazine, The Guardian, and The Times. His films have aired on National Geographic, Discovery, BBC One and Two, and Channel 5. He has won the Association of British Science Writers and the Wellcome Trust Awards for science writing and a BBC Radio One Award for factual radio and the American Genesis Award for Best Popular Television Documentary. He lives in London, England.

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Heritage News-Herald, April 6, 2012
...as thousands of T-shirts scattered throughout Florida have attested to for so many years. No, according to one Jonnie Hughes who has penned a remarkable book entitled, On The Origin Of Tepees, Free Press Publisher, in which he devotes some 274 pages to...
Book Review : On the Origin of Tepees: The Evolution of Ideas (and Ourselves) by Jonnie Hughes
Science News Online, September 9, 2011
...An entertaining tour of the American West shows how ideas spread through the cultural landscape. Free Press, 2011, 302 p., $25...
Can design evolve the same way humans do?
New Scientist, August 3, 2011
...wide-brimmed headgear, made back east, cattle ranchers creased in the characteristic ridges that factories later copied. Science writer Jonnie Hughes isn't convinced. He believes that the cowboy hat invented itself: the wranglers merely provided a...
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