John van Wyhe is a historian of science who specializes on Darwin and Wallace. He is a well-known writer, lecturer and broadcaster and the founder and Director of Darwin Online, Wallace Online, and a former Bye-Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. His other books include: Dispelling the Darkness: Voyage in the Malay Archipelago and the discovery of evolution by Wallace and Darwin. (World Scientific Publishing, 2013), Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters from the Malay Archipelago. With K. Rookmaaker, Foreword by Sir David Attenborough. (Oxford University Press, 2013), Darwin. (Andre Deutsch: 2008, National Geographic, 2009), Charles Darwin's shorter publications 1829-1883.

(Cambridge University Press, 2009), Charles Darwin's notebooks from the voyage of the Beagle.(Cambridge University Press, 2009, with G. Chancellor and K. Rookmaaker).