Adam Hart was born in Brixham, South Devon and is an English scientist, author and broadcaster. He has co-presented three BBC TV documentaries on social insects (BBC4's Planet Ant: Life Inside the Colony, BBC2's Life on Planet Ant and BBC2's Hive Alive). Hart has written and presented numerous BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service documentaries and written more than eighty scientific papers.
In 2015, he authored the popular-science book The Life of Poo about our complex relationships with bacteria. His latest book, Unfit for Purpose, covers mismatches between human evolution and the modern world and is published by Bloomsbury in 2020. In 2017 he presented the BBC World Service weekly science programme Science in Action.