Oren Harman was born in 1973. He grew up near the Jerusalem forest, and for some years in New York City, where a local newspaper dubbed him "the little Israeli magician" for his exploits in soccer. After receiving a doctorate from Oxford University, Oren became a professor of the history and philosophy of science, and an award-winning writer.
 
Oren loves evolution, history, philosophy, biology, mythology and the connections between them. His books include The Man Who Invented the Chromosome, The Price of Altruism, and Evolutions: Fifteen Myths that Explain our World. He is also the co-creator and editor of a trilogy of books on Rebels, Outsiders, and Dreamers in Biology, and the co-editor of the Handbook of the Historiography of Biology. His children's book Darwin's Missing Notebooks was published by Lama Books in 2024, and his Metamorphosis: A Natural and Human History is forthcoming from Basic Books in the fall. Oren's books have been translated into many languages, including Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, Polish, Italian, Korean, Hebrew, and Malayalam.