For over a decade, we have been studying the natural world for insights about human nature. Wildhood is our second book. Our first, Zoobiquity, explored the overlaps between animal and human health.
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Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, MD, PhD
Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, M.D., Ph.D., is a cardiologist and evolutionary biologist on the faculty of UCLA School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, and Harvard University’s Department of Human Biology, Behavior, and Evolution. She was the founding Chair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Board on Animal Health Sciences, Conservation, and Research and is a past president of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health. Dr. Natterson-Horowitz studies a diverse range of species to find solutions for human health challenges from cardiovascular disease to mental health. In 2020 she launched Female Health Across the Tree of Life, a research initiative to improve women’s health. She has been the recipient of multiple AOA visiting professorships and was selected to deliver the keynote at the 2019 Nobel Conference. She is an award-winning and NYT-bestselling author of Zoobiquity and Wildhood. She received her undergraduate and master’s degrees from Harvard, her M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco, and her Ph.D. in Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology from UCLA.
Kathryn Bowers
Kathryn Bowers is a science journalist who has taught courses on animal behavior and writing at UCLA and Harvard. A Future Tense Fellow at New America in Washington, DC, she was previously an editor at Zócalo Public Square in Los Angeles, a staff editor at the Atlantic Monthly, and a writer/producer for CNN International in London.
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