LEE R. BERGER is the Research Professor in Human Origins and the
Public Understanding of Science at the University of the
Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and a National
Geographic Explorer-in-Residence. He was a founder of the
Palaeoanthropological Scientific Trust, today the largest nonprofit
organization in Africa supporting research into human origins. The
director of one of the largest paleontological projects in history,
leading over 100 researchers in investigations of the Malapa site
in South Africa, Berger is the author of more than 200 scholarly
and popular works. His research has been featured three times on
the cover of Science and has been named among the top 100 science
stories of the year by Time, Scientific American and Discover
magazine on numerous occasions. Berger has appeared in many
television documentaries on subjects related to archaeology,
paleoanthropology, and natural history, and has appeared widely on
television and radio, including NPR's Talk of the Nation, Morning
Edition, and All Things Considered and PBS's News Hour and Alan
Alda's Scientific American Frontiers. Berger was named one of Time
magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2015 and 2016's Rolex
National Geographic Explorer of the Year.
JOHN HAWKS is the Vilas-Borghesi Distinguished Achievement
Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He is the author of a widely read paleoanthropology blog,
johnhawks.net. Hawks graduated from Kansas State University in 1994
with degrees in French, English, and anthropology. He received both
his M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Michigan.
After working as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Utah,
he moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is
currently a member of the anthropology department, teaching courses
including human evolution, biological anthropology, and hominid
paleoecology.
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