Wilson's biography "Charles Darwin, Victorian Mythmaker" (2017), was criticised by John van Wyhe in "New Scientist" for confusing Darwin's theory of natural selection with Lamarckism at one point, as well as other scientific, historical and editorial errors. Kathryn Hughes in "The Guardian" described it as a "cheap attempt to ruffle feathers", with a dubious grasp of science and attempted character assassination. In "The Evening Standard", Adrian Woolfson says that "while for the greater part a lucid, elegantly written and thought-provoking social and intellectual history", Wilson's "speculations on evolutionary theory" produce a book that is "fatally flawed, mischievous, and ultimately misleading". Steve Jones, an emeritus of University College London, commented in "The Sunday Times": "In the classic mould of the contrarian, he despises anything said by mainstream biology in favour of marginal and sometimes preposterous theories." The geneticist and former editor of "Nature", Adam Rutherford, called the book "deranged" and said Wilson "would fail GCSE biology catastrophically."