CONTRIBUTORS 



Based in Canada's Yukon Territory, wildlife and nature photog- 

 rapher THEO ALLOFS ("The Natural Moment," page 4) travels 

 the globe to document endangered animals and their threatened 

 habitats. Through his work he hopes to stimulate interest in pre- 

 serving the natural world. Allofs's most recent book, Pantanal: 

 South America's Wetland Jewel (Firefly Books, 2005), accomplish- 

 es just that for a rare ecosystem. His photographs have won sev- 

 eral awards, including the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition 

 and Nature's Best Photography Award. Selections of his work can be viewed at his 

 Web site (www.theoallofs.com). 



ERIC R. KANDEL ("Learning to Find Your Way," page 32) was born in Vienna, 

 Austria. First captivated by history, psychoanalysis and psychiatry, Kandel later 

 became interested in neurobiology, and finally in the biological 

 processes of memory. He is University Professor and Fred Kavli 

 Professor of Brain Science at Columbia University, and senior 

 investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy 

 Chase, Maryland. He has received fifteen honorary degrees and 

 numerous prizes and awards, including the Lasker Award, the 

 National Medal of Science, and the Wolf Prize of Israel. In 2000 

 he became the first American psychiatrist to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Phys- 

 iology or Medicine. His intellectual autobiography, In Search of Memory: The Emer- 

 gence of a New Science of Mind, from which the essay in this issue has been adapt- 

 ed, will be published by WW Norton this month. 



College courses can have lasting effects not only on the students, 

 but on the lecturer as well. ULDIS ROZE ("Smart Weapons," page 

 48) had just such an experience during his first job at Queens 

 College in New York City. Even though his background was in 

 chemistry and biochemistry, Roze taught a course in biology, and 

 during field trips, he encountered nature's diversity. Stirred by the 

 experience, Roze and his wife built a cabin at the edge of the 

 woods. When porcupines ventured out of the woods at night, drawn by glue in 

 the plywood of the cabin, Roze followed them, and they became his mentors. 

 Some of what he learned he gathered in a book, Tlie North American Porcupine 

 (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989) and in scientific papers. He retired from lec- 

 turing in 2003, but he continues to chronicle the lives of his forest visitors. 



RUSSELL L. CIOCHON ("Our Anthropoid Roots," page 54) is no stranger to the 

 pages of Natural History, having previously written not only about the fossil pri- 

 mates from Myanmar (formerly Burma) that he revisits in this issue, but also on 

 various other paleontological and archaeological topics. A professor of anthropol- 

 ogy at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Ciochon has often collaborated with 

 Chinese and Southeast Asian scholars in field research. GREGG F. GUNNELL be- 

 came fascinated with the Burmese fossil primates as a graduate student, little sus- 

 pecting he would ever study the fossils professionally. His research also focuses on 



the origin and diversification of North American 

 bats, carnivores, and the hippolike anthracotheres. 

 Gunnell is an associate research scientist and senior 

 research museums collection manager at the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan Museum of Paleontology in 

 Ann Arbor. Ciochon and Gunnell are collaborat- 

 ing on a book about ancient Burmese primates, 

 Ciochon Gunnell which will be published in 2007. 



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