The Human Skeleton
Pat Shipmanis Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including the 1997 Rhône-Poulenc Prize forThe Wisdom of the Bones(coauthored with Alan Walker) and the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Science forTaking Wing, which was also a finalist for theLos Angeles TimesBook Award and aNew York TimesNotable Book of the Year in 1998.Alan Walkeris Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. A Royal Society and MacArthur fellow, he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1996, he and Pat Shipman won the prestigious Rhone-Poulenc Award forThe Wisdom of the Bones.