Holly Dunsworth is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Rhode Island where she teaches courses on human origins, evolution, and variation. She's editor of the "Human Fossil Record" room at www.scitable.com and author of “Human Origins 101.” At the early Miocene sites on Rusinga Island, Kenya she performs paleontological research where some of the most ancient fossil apes are preserved, and she also studies zoo apes. Her work is published in PNAS, J. of Human Evolution, PaleoAnthropology, Evolutionary Anthropology, Evolution: Education and Outreach, and Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, and Palaeoecology as well as in Walking Upright, The Primate Fossil Record, Icons of Evolution, and 826 National's Don't Forget to Write. Since it aired on NPR’s Weekend Edition, her totally sappy This I Believe essay “I Am Evolution” remains in the top five of the site’s columns of all time. Her riff on sperm and asteroids made it onto McSweeney's! Holly grew up in Oviedo, Florida, and now lives in Peace Dale, Rhode Island with her husband, Kevin Stacey, and two frisky dogs, one of whom is @ElroyBeefstu.
