Lucy Cooke

Lucy Cooke is a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning broadcaster and National Geographic Explorer with a master’s in zoology from New College, Oxford, where she studied under Richard Dawkins. She is a fellow of Durham University and a regular guest lecturer at universities including Harvard and Cambridge.
Lucy has written, directed and presented award-winning international television series for the BBC, National Geographic, Animal Planet and Discovery, and co-presented BBC Springwatch. On BBC Radio 4 she has hosted her own series, The Truth About… and Political Animals, and is a regular on The Infinite Monkey Cage and Sue Perkins’ Nature Table. She has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Guardian and New Scientist, among others.
Her bestselling book Bitch: What Does It Mean to Be Female? challenges the sexist dogma embedded in evolutionary biology. A Telegraph and Guardian book of the year, it has been adopted onto university syllabuses around the world and is being developed as a stage musical and television series. Her earlier books include The Truth About Animals, shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize and translated into nineteen languages, and A Little Book of Sloth, which became a major Discovery series.