Pat Shipman is Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including the 1997 Rhône-Poulenc Prize for The Wisdom of the Bones (coauthored with Alan Walker) and the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Science for Taking Wing, which was also a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1998.

Alan Walker is Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. A Royal Society and MacArthur fellow, he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1996, he and Pat Shipman won the prestigious Rhone-Poulenc Award for The Wisdom of the Bones.

Read More by Pat Shipman:

• The Evolution of Racism: Human Differences and the Use and Abuse of Science
• The Man Who Found the Missing Link: Eugène Dubois and His Lifelong Quest to Prove Darwin Right
• The Ape in the Tree: An Intellectual and Natural History of <i>Proconsul</i>

Read More by Alan Walker:

• Nariokotome Homo Erectus Skeleton
• The Ape in the Tree: An Intellectual and Natural History of <i>Proconsul</i>