Exploration question
By looking carefully at the behavior and life-cycles of other species, how can we use creative ways to broaden and deepen our own self-understanding?
Oren is a writer and thinker trained in history and biology who holds a doctorate from Oxford University. He is fascinated by evolution both as a theory and reality, and by the history and philosophy of science, and has taught and lectured widely in Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia and the United States. Oren’s book The Price of Altruism was nominated for a Pulitzer and won the Los Angeles Times Books Prize, and his latest book Metamorphosis: a Natural and Human History has been called “a new classic of natural history”.
Oren is also a children’s book writer, author of the Becoming series, including Alex Axolotl, and Frances Frog for 3-5 year olds, and the who-done-it Darwin’s Missing Notebooks, selected by the Ministry of Education of Israel for inclusion in schools nationwide for grades 4-6.
At the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Oren heads the Science and Creativity Hub, a home for creatives from different disciplines writing books, making films, music and dance on science for K-12 kids.
