Mr. Ridley is the author of How Innovation Works, and Why It Flourishes in Freedom, published in 2020. He is a biologist, newspaper columnist, and member of the House of Lords in the U.K. The West ...

The author of several scientific books — including The Rational Optimist, his paean about how human grit and ingenuity have historically prevailed over a harsh natural world — Ridley ...

Matt Ridley begins his book with a simple truth ... it has all sorts of “mischievous genes on it.” That set the author thinking. “I had never thought of chromosomes as having personalities ...