Reg Morrison was born in England in 1934, and lived in Sri Lanka until 1944 when his family fled to Australia as war refugees. He became interested in photography as a 13-year-old Melbourne schoolboy, and finished his formal education at Mill Hill in London. After 15 years on the staff of two West Australian Newspapers he moved to Sydney and switched to book illustration. He has worked on assignments in India, south-east Asia, Hawaii and America, andfor the past 30 years he has specialized in evolutionary and environmental matters in Australia. During the 1980s he compiled a major coffee-table book that outlined the geological and biological evolution of this ancient continent and has subsequently distilled that research into two High School science resources. His last general-market book, 'The Spirit in the Gene' (Cornell University Press, 1999), summarized the impact that humans have had on the biosphere and explored the genetic origins of the behaviour that produced this impact. He continues to expand on this work via his website at http://regmorrison.edublogs.org/