PAT SHIPMAN
Pat Shipman is both an internationally-known paleoanthropologist and an award-winning writer. Recipient of the Leighton Wilkie Prize in 2005, she has conducted extensive research on the origins and ecology of early human ancestors, especially on the beginning of scavenging and hunting. She pioneered the use of scanning electron microscopy to study cutmarks left by stone tools and to deduce the uses to which bone tools were put by our ancestors. She has worked on fossil sites or collections from Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Sardinia, Indonesia, France, Argentina, South Africa and North America.
In her second career as a science writer, Shipman has written widely acclaimed books for general audiences on evolution and human origins, all of which have been runners-up or winners of international prizes, including The Neandertals: Changing the Image of Mankind (with co-author Erik Trinkaus), The Wisdom of the Bones and The Ape in the Tree (both written with her husband and co-author, Alan Walker), and Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Origin of Bird Flight. She has also drawn on her expertise in Africa and Indonesia to write several biographies, one of anatomist Eugene Dubois, the finder of "Java Man", called The Man Who Found the Missing Link and another about Florence Baker, an irrepressible Victorian lady explorer who searched for the source of the Nile, called To the Heart of the Nile.
Most recently she has finished a biography of Mata Hari, which will be published in 2007 by William Morris Inc. She also writes a regular column for the popular science magazine American Scientist and has published extensively in Discover, Natural History, and similar magazines.
Whether speaking about science, the role of women in science, or the drive that causes people to pursue elusive discoveries, Shipman is a compelling speaker and perceptive commentator. Her work has been featured in several television programs with the BBC, Nova, National Geographic and other groups. She has also given numerous lectures, workshops, and radio interviews on topics within her broad range of interests.
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