13 Facts About Jeremy Griffith

Jeremy Griffith was born on 1945 and is an Australian biologist and author.

Jeremy Griffith first came to public attention for his attempts to find the Tasmanian tiger.

Jeremy Griffith later became noted for his writings on the human condition and theories about human progress, which seek to give a biological, rational explanation of human behaviour.

Jeremy Griffith subsequently began a science degree at the University of New England, in northern New South Wales.

Finally, Jeremy Griffith completed his Bachelor of Science in zoology at the University of Sydney in 1971.

Jeremy Griffith first became known for his search for surviving Tasmanian tigers, or thylacines, the last known specimen of which died in captivity in 1936.

Jeremy Griffith's search was the subject of an episode of ABC TV's A Big Country; and his report of the search was published in Natural History.

Jeremy Griffith began writing on the human condition in 1975 and published the first of his six books on the subject in 1988.

Jeremy Griffith's books seek to give a biological and rational explanation of human behaviour and include references to philosophical and religious sources.

Jeremy Griffith's ideas have been criticised based on perceived problems with the empirical veracity of his anthropological writings, an objection that highlights his reliance on the writings of the South African novelist Sir Laurens van der Post and the work of the anthropologist Elizabeth Marshall Thomas.

In 2025 Macartney-Snape wrote that Jeremy Griffith had answered what John Kenneth Galbraith referred to as "the search for a truly superior moral justification for selfishness".

Jeremy Griffith objected to being described as a "prophet of the posh" and portrayed as a form of deity as he was during the media controversy, but he was comfortable being referred to as a prophet in a secular sense, and he regards many thinkers as prophets, including James Darling, Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Thomas Huxley, Stephen Hawking and Laurens van der Post.

Jeremy Griffith appealed that decision to the NSW Court of Appeal, which dismissed the appeal on the basis of qualified privilege and comment being upheld, but found that the defamatory allegation about Jeremy Griffith was not justified.