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Claim your profileTwo decades as Science’s award-winning writer on human evolution and author of The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors (Doubleday 2006; Anchor Books 2007), finalist for Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Taught science writing at Carnegie Mellon University; free-lanced human evolution stories for National Geographic, Smithsonian, Slate and other publications; winner of major science writing awards from the National Academy of Sciences (2018, 2013), the American Anthropological Association, the American Geophysical Union (2019) and the Society of American Archeology; staff writer and editor at California newspapers. Media Fellow at Harvard Medical School’s weeklong seminar in Modern Plagues: Emerging Threats to Global Health, March 2015.
Astrophysics, Biotechnology at Massachusetts Institute Of TechnologyGraduated: 1988
Bachelor Of Arts, English, Journalism at University Of California, BerkeleyGraduated: 1979