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name: Ardea Skybreak
about: Ardea Skybreak was formally trained as a biologist specializing in evolutionary biology and community ecology. She is committed to broadly popularizing science and the scientific method. Skybreak was profoundly influenced during her high school and college years by the great upheavals of the 1960s and the way in which "revolution was in the air." The Vietnam War; Malcolm X; the Black Panthers; the radical movement for the emancipation of women; China, the Cultural Revolution, and Mao—were for her, as for so many others, formative.Pursuing her passion for biology, in the early and mid-1970s Skybreak accumulated significant research experience in both the lab and the field.She taught college level science, published in professional journals, Ardea Skybreak was formally trained as a biologist specializing in evolutionary biology and community ecology. She is committed to broadly popularizing science and the scientific method. Skybreak was profoundly influenced during her high school and college years by the great upheavals of the 1960s and the way in which "revolution was in the air." The Vietnam War; Malcolm X; the Black Panthers; the radical movement for the emancipation of women; China, the Cultural Revolution, and Mao—were for her, as for so many others, formative.Pursuing her passion for biology, in the early and mid-1970s Skybreak accumulated significant research experience in both the lab and the field.She taught college level science, published in professional journals, earned a masters degree, and was well on her way to earning a PhD in biology. Before completing her PhD thesis, she made the difficult decision to leave the PhD program to devote herself fulltime to broader social and political commitments. However, she never lost her passion for scientific investigation, her love of adventure, and her enthusiasm for applying and popularizing the methods of science, without which she feels there can be no valid understanding of reality or of how to change it.As a writer with a revolutionary communist perspective, she has explored a wide range of social, political, scientific, and philosophical topics. Her writings include Of Primeval Steps and Future Leaps: An Essay on the Emergence of Human Beings, the Source of Women's Oppression, and the Road to Emancipation; "Some Ideas on the Social Role of Art"; "Not in Our Genes and the Waging of the Ideological Counteroffensive"; "Remembering Stephen Jay Gould"; and "Working with Ideas and Searching for Truth: A Reflection on Revolutionary Leadership and the Intellectual Process." ...more