Christopher Wills

{{Short description|Professor Emeritus of Biology at UCSD}}

Christopher J. Wills (born 1938) is Professor Emeritus of Biology at UCSD.{{cite web |title=Christopher Wills Professor Emeritus |url=https://biology.ucsd.edu/research/faculty/cwills |website=UCSD |accessdate=3 September 2020}}

He received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. As a Guggenheim Fellow,{{Cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/christopher-j-wills/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Christopher J. Wills}} he worked at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, on protein chemistry and evolution.

He is the author of The Runaway Brain: The Evolution of Human Uniqueness (1994), Children Of Prometheus, The Accelerating Pace Of Human Evolution (1999), The Spark Of Life: Darwin And The Primeval Soup (2001) and The Darwinian Tourist: Viewing the World Through Evolutionary Eyes (late 2010). Children of Prometheus was a finalist for the Aventis Prize in 2000. He received the 1998 Award for the Public Understanding of Science and Technology from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.