Christopher Wills

Christopher Wills was born in England and raised in Canada. He is currently Professor of Biology and a member of the Center for Molecular Genetics at the University of California, San Diego. His research ranges from the question of human origins to the nature of human genetic variation and the mechanisms by which we resist disease. He is the author of three books for the general reader on biology: ‘The Wisdom of the Genes’, ‘Exons’, ‘Introns and Talking Genes’, and most recently, ‘The Runaway Brain’.