He is an ecologist and archaeologist specializing in the palaeozoology of North America during the Holocene.R. Lee Lyman is a professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri–Columbia. He has published widely on the value of zooarchaeology for conservation biology, including Zooarchaeology and Conservation Biology (co-edited by Kenneth P. Cannon), and other zooarchaeology topics, including quantitative paleozoology. Bestsellers in this subject