Adrian John Desmond (born 1947) is an English writer on thehistory of science and author of books aboutCharles Darwin.

He studied physiology atLondon University and went on to study the history of science and vertebrate palaeontology atUniversity College London before researching the history of vertebrate palaeontology atHarvard University.^[1] He was awarded a PhD in the area of the Victorian-period context of Darwinian evolution.^[2]

Desmond is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Biology Department atUniversity College London.^[3][4]

• The Hot-blooded Dinosaurs: a revolution in palaeontology (1975)
• The Ape's Reflexion (1979)
• Archetypes and Ancestors (1982)
• The Politics of Evolution: Morphology, medicine and reform in radical London (1989). This work won thePfizer Award.^[5]
• Darwin (1991) withJames Moore.^[6] This work won theJames Tait Black Prize, the Comisso Prize for biography in Italy, the Watson Davis Prize of theHistory of Science Society and the Dingle Prize of theBritish Society for the History of Science.^[7]
• Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest (1999)
• Charles Darwin (Very Interesting People) withJanet Browne &James Moore (2007)
• Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery, and the Quest for Human Origins withJames Moore (2009)

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