AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion

Biography

Ian Tattersall, Ph.D., serves as the curator in the Department of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History. Dr. Tattersall is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University and in the Graduate Program in Anthropology at C.U.N.Y. His areas of research include Human evolution, particularly the recognition of species in the human fossil record and the determination of their relationships; integration of the human fossil record with evolutionary theory; systematics, biology and evolution of the primates of Madagascar. He is the author of The Last Neanderthal: The Rise, Success and Mysterious Extinction of Our Closest Human Relatives (Macmillan Publishing, 1995) and Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness (Harcourt Brace, 1998).