Evolution and Luck : John van Wyhe at TEDxNTU

John van Wyhe (B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Cantab)) is a historian of science, Senior Lecturer in the Departments of Biological Sciences and History and a Fellow of Tembusu College at the National University of Singapore. He is the Director of Darwin Online and Wallace Online, Professorial Fellow of Charles Darwin University, Fellow of the Linnean Society of London and a Scientific Associate of the Natural History Museum (London). His research has challenged several long-standing beliefs including Darwin's delay; when Darwin received Wallace's evolution essay and whether Darwin gave up Christianity when his daughter Annie died. In 2009 he led the restoration of Darwin's Christ's College rooms and is now leading an exhibition on Wallace at the Singapore Science Centre for November 2013. He lectures and broadcasts around the world.

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