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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).
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