God, Genes, Greens and Everything
Berry’s series of lectures were never published.
Berry’s series of lectures were never published.
Robert James Berry was born on 26 October 1934 in Preston, England. A geneticist and minister, his main research interest was the evolutionary genetics of wild mouse and vole populations. In 1962, he became Lecturer at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, followed by Reader and eventually Professor of Genetics. He moved to University College London as Professor in 1978, retiring in 2000. Berry also held a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship until 2004 and was a member of the General Synod of the Church of England for over twenty years.
President of the Linnean Society and the British Ecological Society, he served on the National Environment Research Council and was Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Berry’s interconnected faith and academic life are reflected in his publications: Adam and the Ape (1975), Neo-Darwinism (1982), God and Evolution (1988), Real Science, Real Faith (1991), God and the Biologist (1996), God’s Book of Works (2003). He also edited several Church of England publications including Christians and the Environment (1991) and Personal Origins (1996).