A Financier Called Jeffrey Epstein Accelerates the Course of Evolution at Harvard Evolution is always on the move but nowhere has it been more in flux than at Harvard University. Indeed ten years ago, a brilliant Austrian biologist and mathematician called Martin Nowak, collaborated with a then unknown New York financier called Jeffrey Epstein to establish the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. The financier's goal was not to give Harvard University a $30 million dollar gift to coddle nco-Darwinian theorists, but to accelerate key discoveries into the evolution and treatment of major diseases from cancer to infectious bacteria and viruses such as HIV. It all began in March of 2000 when Epstein, a New York fund manager with a passion for cutting- edge science, invited Nowak to organize a conference on the evolution of language. Nowak was then head of the Program in Theoretical Biology at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and had already published a substantial amount of work on the mathematics of the HIV virus, infectious bacteria, and cancer cells. Before going to Princeton, Nowak had been the head of the mathematical-biology group at Oxford University. Epstein was no ordinary fund manager with a pension for science. By 2003, he was an established science philanthropist. He had supported the research of many prominent scientists, including Stephen Hawking, Marvin Minsky, Eric Lander, George Church, and Nobel laureate physicists Gerard 't Hooft, David Gross, and Frank Wilczek. According to New York Magazine, he was one of the largest donors to individual scientists around the world, granting up to $200 million a year. He was also a member of the New York Academy of Science, a member of Rockefeller University's board, and actively involved in the Santa Fe Institute, the Quantum Gravity Program at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Mind, Brain & Behavior Advisory Committee at Harvard. Epstein himself had studied physics at the Coop