Matt Ridley

Matthew White Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley,, is a British science writer, journalist and businessman. He is best known for his writings on science, the environment, and economics. He has written several science books, including The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (1994), Genome (1999), The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (2010), The Evolution of Everything: How Ideas Emerge (2015) and Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 (2021). He publishes a blog and has been a regular contributor to The Times newspaper.