Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

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1. Stephen Jay Gould

   Author of Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History, Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)

2. Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

   Author of Genes, Peoples, and Languages, The Great Human Diasporas: The History of Diversity and Evolution (Helix Books), The History and Geography of Human Genes: (Abridged paperback edition)

3. Matt Ridley

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4. Steven Pinker

   Author of The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, Words and Rules

5. Bryan Sykes

   Author of The Seven Daughters of Eve, Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland, Adam's Curse

6. Richard Dawkins

   Author of The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, Climbing Mount Improbable, The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

7. Spencer Wells

   Author of The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey, Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project

8. Steven Mithen

   Author of After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC, The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science, The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body

9. Merritt Ruhlen

   Author of The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue, A Guide to the World's Languages: Volume I, Classification

10. Stephen Oppenheimer

    Author of Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World, The Origins of the British: A Genetic Detective Story

11. Edward O. Wilson

    Author of The Diversity of Life, On Human Nature, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis

12. Steve Olson

    Author of Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins

13. Jared Diamond

    Author of The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal

14. J. P. Mallory

    Author of In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology, and Myth

15. Colin Renfrew

    Author of Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins

16. Brian M. Fagan

    Author of The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization, The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations

17. David W. Anthony

    Author of The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World

18. Nicholas Wade

    Author of Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors

19. Ernst Mayr

    Author of The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance, This Is Biology: The Science of the Living World, Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist

20. Nicholas Ostler

    Author of Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World