Greg Laden is an independent scholar, writer and blogger. “I have a very fancy PhD from Harvard (written in Latin and everything) in Archeology and Biological Anthropology, as well as a Master’s Degree in the same subjects (also from Harvard),” he writes. “I was awarded a Medical Doctorate, but that turned out to be a clerical error and it was quickly revoked, much to the annoyance of my patients….”
Laden has done many years of fieldwork in Africa, mainly in the Congo and South Africa. He has divided his field research interests between working with the Efe (Pygmy) Hunter-Gatherers of the Ituri Rain Forest and working on specific questions of the transition from a chimpanzee-like ancestor to modern humans. He is currently working on a study of rodent diet and morphology as a means of understanding shifts in early human ancestral diets.
Laden blogs at Scienceblogs.com and QuicheMoraine.com, and guest blogs on various other sites. He writes about science (especially evolution, human evolution and general biology), the evolution-creationism “debate,” and politics (especially the politics of religion and atheism).
Laden was born in upstate New York and lived in Boston, Milwaukee and the Congo prior to moving to the Twin Cities about 10 years ago. ◙