Christopher Wills

Christopher J. Wills (born 1938) is Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of California, San Diego, where he received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and worked as a Guggenheim Fellow at the Karolinska Institute on protein chemistry and evolution. He is an acclaimed author of books on human evolution and ecology, including 'Children of Prometheus' (1998, finalist for the Aventis Prize) and 'Why Ecosystems Matter' (2025 Marsh Book of the Year Award winner), and received the 1999 AAAS Award for Public Understanding of Science and Technology.[3][5]