Oren Harman is a writer and historian of science. His book, The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness, explores the evolutionary origins of altruism and the tortured polymath, George Price, who wrote an equation to help solve its apparent paradox. The book won the 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the category of Science and Technology, was long-listed for the Royal Society Winton Prize, was a New York Times Book of the Year, and has inspired theater plays and radio shows. Harman's first book was The Man Who Invented the Chromosome (Harvard University Press, 2004) about the English scientist Cyril Dean Darlington, who tried to use biology to understand human culture and history, and whose ideas foreshowed much of the influential field of evolvability