Stuart Newman is a professor of cell and molecular physiology at New York Medical College in Valhalla, N.Y., and a member of the external faculty of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI) in Klosterneuburg, Austria. After undergraduate studies in chemistry at Columbia University he received a Ph.D. in chemical physics at the University of Chicago. He was an early worker in systems biology and evolutionary-developmental biology and has contributed to the current understanding of the origination and development of animal body plans and eggs, and tetrapod limbs. Newman has also been a campaigner against misapplications of biotechnology to human reproduction and was a founder of the Council for Responsible Genetics (Cambridge, Mass.). He is the coauthor (with Gabor Forgacs) of Biological Physics of the Developing Embryo (Cambridge, 2005) and (with Tina Stevens) of Biotech Juggernaut: Hope, Hype, and Hidden Agendas of Entrepreneurial Bioscience (Routledge, 2019). Newman is also past editor-in-chief of Biological Theory, the KLI’s philosophy of biology journal.