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Roger Highfield
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Roger Highfield

ROGER HIGHFIELD, Ph.D. (Co-Writer) is the Editor of New Scientist magazine, which is now the world’s biggest selling weekly science and technology magazine. He has written/coauthored six popular science books, two of which have been bestsellers, including After Dolly, The Science of Harry Potter, The Physics of Christmas, The Private Lives of Albert Einstein, and Frontiers of Complexity. His most recent work was as the outside editor on genomic researcher J. Craig Venter's autobiography, A Life Decoded, published in November, 2007 (Viking, US; Allen Lane, UK) .

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SuperCooperators will be released on March 27, 2012 in Trade Paperback
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Financial Times, January 18, 2013
Telegraph, August 14, 2012
...Roger Highfield applauds Pieces of Light by Charles Fernyhough. Memory: according to one writer, its that crazy woman that hoards coloured rags and throws away food. To another, its a dog...
Telegraph, June 9, 2012
...Roger Highfield warns in the Telegraph, of a new genetic test to screen unborn babies for thousands of genetic disorders: “What is considered acceptable will vary a great deal from person...
University of Cambridge, May 25, 2012
...that evolutionary fitness is an unnecessary concept.” More recently Nowak has suggested in his book SuperCooperators, co-authored with Roger Highfield, that cooperation is an essential third pillar in the evolutionary process along with genetic...
Red Orbit, January 18, 2013
...thousand years, unless we spread into space.” (From "Colonies in space may be only hope, says Hawking" by Roger Highfield in Daily Telegraph [October 16, 2001]) “Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Never give up work. Work...
Red Orbit, January 18, 2013
...thousand years, unless we spread into space.” (From “Colonies in space may be only hope, says Hawking” by Roger Highfield in Daily Telegraph [October 16, 2001]) “Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Never give up work....
BA High Life, January 18, 2013
...The Science Museum Group's Roger Highfield reveals all We are more open to novel ideas when our minds are allowed to wander Simon Cook/ Share this article You're lying on the beach, eyes clamped...
Financial Times, January 18, 2013
More Intelligent Life.com, January 15, 2013
...a great service. Do you agree? For more thoughts on the greatest inventions read Tom Standage on writing, Roger Highfield on the scientific method, Edward Carr on the blade, Samantha Weinberg on the internet and Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu on the transistor...
The Empire, January 14, 2013
...needs heroes for the same reason as the Olympics. If we abandon our heroes, we make science insipid. Roger Highfield , author and director of external affairs at the Science Museum Group We're in danger of becoming a cargo cult, living with the...
NPR, January 14, 2013
...needs heroes for the same reason as the Olympics. If we abandon our heroes, we make science insipid. Roger Highfield, We're in danger of becoming a cargo cult, living with the inventions of Ancestors from a mythical time of stable long-term research...