Dr. Helena Cronin is a noted Darwinian philosopher and rationalist. She is the co-director of the CPNSS

CPNSS

Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science is an interdisciplinary research centre into philosophical, methodological and foundational questions in the natural and the social sciences at the London School of Economics...

 and the Darwin Centre at the London School of Economics

London School of Economics

The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...

. She achieved prominence with her book, The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today (1991) but has published and broadcast widely since.

In her youth, she attended Henrietta Barnett School

Henrietta Barnett School

The Henrietta Barnett School is a voluntary-aided grammar school for girls in Hampstead Garden Suburb in London The Good Schools Guide called the school "One of the best academic state schools in the country, providing a gentle, inspiring education in a wonderful setting for very clever...

 in Hampstead Garden Suburb

Hampstead Garden Suburb

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She is married to another critical and questioning academic, the "radical dentist," Dr.