Nicholas Wade

Reporter and author Nicholas Wade currently writes for the science section of The New York Times. He has also authored Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors, a book about tracking the origins of human ancestry using DNA.

Fast Facts:

1. Birthplace: Montclair, New Jersey
2. Alma Mater: Eton College and King’s College
3. Received a degree in Natural Sciences in 1964
4. Author of Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
5. In 2007, Wade received a Science-in-Society Journalism Award¹
6. Worked for Nature Magazine a London-based publication from 1967 to 1971
7. In 1971, joined Science Magazine a weekly publication based out of Washington
8. Science editor of The New York Times from 1990 to 1996

Quotes

• In response to a query on what interested him on human evolution:
  • "It was in the course of writing up genetics papers, which is what I do at the paper [the New York Times]. Many of them were related to aspects of the human past, and I began to see, firstly, how much of the past other disciplines had managed to cover—more than I was aware of—and, secondly, how genetics seems to be a new thread by which one could make a synthesis of all the information that is out there. That's what I tried to do in the book."²— Nicholas Wade

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