Dr. David Bainbridge is an English veterinarian, reproductive biologist and popular science writer. He is currently Clinical Veterinary Anatomist at Cambridge University, and a fellow of St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge.

After surviving his teenage years in 1980s Essex, England, Bainbridge took a degree in Zoology and trained as a veterinary surgeon at Cambridge. He has also undertaken research in reproductive biology in deer, horses, cattle, mice and humans at Cornell, Sydney, London and Oxford Universities as well as the Institute of Zoology at the London Zoo.

His first book, Making Babies: The Science of Pregnancy (Harvard 2000), reflected his recent move into studying human pregnancy. Bainbridge decided that the best way to explain the vagaries of human pregnancy was to view it in an evolutionary context. Making Babies was chosen as a Washington Post ‘book rave’ for that year.

His next two books continued his evolutionary approach to human biology. Genes and sexuality were discussed in his book, The X in Sex: How the X Chromosome Controls Our Lives (Harvard 2003), which won the American Medical Writers Association prize. He also took a closer look at the brain in his later book, Beyond the Zonules of Zinn (Harvard 2008). His books have led to appearances on television and radio, as well as several invited articles in newspapers and popular science magazines.

Dr. David Bainbridge lives in Suffolk with his wife and their children, all three of whom are edging inexorably towards adolescence.