John Stephen Jones (born 24 March 1944) is a British geneticist and, from 1995 to 1999 as well as from 2008 to June 2010, Head of the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London.
He is a prize-winning author on biology, especially evolution. The Language of the Genes (1993), based on the Reith Lectures of the same name won the Royal Society Science Book Prize. Almost Like a Whale (1999) is an update of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species and closely follows its structure. In 1996, he won the Michael Faraday Prize.
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