Jeremy Taylor was previously a senior producer and director for BBC Television, where he made numerous science films for the BBC’s long-running flagship science series Horizon, as well as for the Discovery Channel and the Learning Channel. His first book Not a Chimp: The Hunt for the Genes That Made Us Human was published by Oxford University Press in 2009. His second book Body by Darwin: How Evolution Shapes Our Health and Transforms Medicine, was published in 2015 by University of Chicago Press. Taylor died in 2017.