Shaun Johnston

I've invested myself as much in the sciences as in the creative arts. Now I claim to represent the views of both artists and scientists on what it means we evolved. Though born (1939) son of a Church of England clergyman, from my earliest days I was scientifically inclined. I studied biochemistry at University College London the first year they offered biochemistry as an undergraduate degree course, but then embarked on a career in publishing, as first a book and graphic designer, but then as a medical writer/editor.

I've also a fair record as an artist/illustrator. And since 1992 I've been writing novels and stories about the meaning of evolution, starting with "Father, in a Far Distant Time I Find You," a utopian novel projecting the history of evolutionary theorizing to date onto a string of civilizations over the upcoming four thousand years, and including a romantic comedy "Me and The Genies." In 2017 I summed up my concerns with what it means it evolved in a book titled "Re-thinking What it Means We Evolved: New Framework For Universal Human Values."

You can see me fusing my interests and my talents performing as a ventriloquist, operating two dummies at the same time, see https://youtu.be/OrjxRDMe3FA. To encourage students of the humanities to come up with new theories of evolution I maintain the website evolutionforthehumanities.com. My goal: to bring modern scientific evolutionary theory into question.