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Shipman, a paleontologist herself, is among the best writers who manage to describe science to popular audiences without sacrificing the complexities of the issues that energize and sometimes divide scientists. -- John Noble Wilford New York Times Book Review

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 Rhone-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.