British biologist whose latest book,The Link,tells the story of the discovery of the most complete early primate fossil.

He had become friendly with an eccentric woman called Helen Spurway, widow of JBS Haldane, the great British biologist.

In the 1970s, Roger Short, a British biologist who later moved to Australia, noticed something peculiar about ape anatomy.

More than 300 years later, the British biologist Alfred Russel Wallace was exploring islands on the other side of the word.

The 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine has been awarded jointly to British biologist John Gurdon and Japanese stem cell researcher Shinya Yamanaka.