Robert W. Sussman was a Professor of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis and until his death in 2016 was considered one of the most outstanding field primatologists of his generation. He was the author of almost 200 journal articles book chapters books and edited volumes on a wide range of issues in primate behavior ecology and conservation. In 2015 Bob published a landmark volume titled The Myth of Race: TheTroubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea (Harvard University Press). His death represents a major loss to the world's primate community. Donna Hart is recently retired from the Department of Anthropology University of Missouri St. Louis. She earned a PhD at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research areas include predation on primates and the ramifications of predation on early hominins. The latter topic is explored in Man the Hunted the book for which Hart and her co-author Bob Sussman were awarded the 2006 W. W. Howells Book Prize from the American Anthropological Association. Preceding academics Hart worked in the field of wildlife conservation specializing in international wildlife treaties. Ian. C. Colquhoun first conducted behavioral observations on lemurs while an undergraduate at the University of Western Ontario. Fieldwork on lemurs continued during MA (McMaster University) and PhD studies (Washington University in St. Louis). He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Western Ontario and past president of the Canadian Association for Biological Anthropology/l'Association Canadienne d'Anthropologie Biologique and member of the Madagascar Section of the IUCN Primate Specialist Group. . Language: English