MORPHOEXODUS
Biologist Lewis Wolpert has died after a battle with covid, aged 91. As one of the leading developmental biologists of the 20th Century, he wrote books such as Malignant Sadness, How We Live and Why We Die, and How To Win The Derby Dead Pool. An atheist who despised militant atheism, Wolpert marched to his own beat, and when he released his theories and research on biology in the 1960s, it was received with horror by many of his peers. But this individualism was breed in early life, he knew Nelson Mandela in the early 50s and was distantly related to the anti-apartheid activist Helen Suzman. In 1986, he gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture on the BBC, on the development of life, and in his 80s he wrote about aging and spoke about the need for better mental health care. He was a unique pick for Gooseberry Crumble, who does like to pick interesting but lesser known names among his three teams. This is the second hit for Team Gooseberry and their third across the crumbles in 2021 – is their oft predicted enema starting to attack their own team picks? Watch this space. Certainly this put them in the top twenty for the first time ever…
Lewis Wolpert
19 October 1929 – 28 January 2021
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