Steven Peter Russell Rose was born on 4 July 1938 and is an English neuroscientist, author, and social commentator.
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Steven Rose is an emeritus professor of biology and neurobiology at the Open University and Gresham College, London.
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Steven Rose went to a direct grant school in northwest London which operated a numerus clausus restricting the numbers of Jewish students.
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Steven Rose studied biochemistry at King's College, Cambridge, and neurochemistry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London.
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Steven Rose has written several popular science books and regularly writes for The Guardian newspaper and the London Review of Books.
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Steven Rose's work has won him numerous medals and prizes including the Biochemical Society medal for communication in science and the prestigious Edinburgh Medal in 2004.
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Together with Hilary Steven Rose he was a founder member of the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science in the 1960s, and more recently they have been instrumental in calling for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions for as long as Israel continues its occupation of the Palestinian Territories, on the grounds of Israeli academics' close relationship with the IDF.
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Steven Rose was for several years a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4's ethics debating series The Moral Maze.
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Steven Rose was part of the Royal Society's working group producing their Brain Waves modules on the state of neuroscience and its social framing, and was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics Working Party on Novel Neurotechnologies.
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Steven Rose replied in the second edition of his book Lifelines.
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Steven Rose wrote further works in this area: in 2000 he jointly edited with the sociologist Hilary Steven Rose, a critique of evolutionary psychology entitled Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology.
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Steven Rose wrote the introduction of The Richness of Life by the prominent American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science, Stephen Jay Gould.