John Dupré is professor of philosophy of science and director of the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (Egenis) at the University of Exeter. He is the author of, among other books, Darwin’s Legacy: What Evolution Means Today (Oxford University Press, 2003) and The Constituents of Life (Van Gorcum, 2008). He is also coauthor, with Barry Barnes, of Genomes and What to Make of Them (University of Chicago Press, 2007).