Pilcher, Helen: - Dr. Helen Pilcher is a tea-drinking, biscuit-nibbling science and comedy writer, with a PhD in cell biology. She has written for Nature, the Guardian, and New Scientist, and has penned many popular science books. Life Changing: How Humans are Altering Life on Earth was The Times 2020 Science Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation. Bring Back the King: The New Science of De-extinction was BBC Radio 2's Fact Not Fiction Book of the Week. She lives in London.