Question: What country is the author of the book "Of Pandas and People: The Central Questions of Biological Origins" from?

Context articles: Of Pandas and People
Percival Davis
Sexual Violence: Opposing Viewpoints (2003)
Terrorism: Opposing Viewpoints (2004)
Robert L. Last
Philosophy of motion
Pan Wenshi
Baylisascaris shroederi
A Separate Creation
Terrorism: Opposing Viewpoints (2000)

Of Pandas and People: The Central Question of Biological Origins is a controversial 1989 (2nd edition 1993) school-level textbook written by Percival Davis and Dean H. Kenyon and published by the Texas-based Foundation for Thought and Ethics (FTE).
 The textbook endorses the pseudoscientific concept of intelligent design—namely that life shows evidence of being designed by an intelligent agent which is not named specifically in the book, although proponents understand that it refers to the Christian God.
 They present various polemical arguments against the scientific theory of evolution.
Percival William Davis, also known as Bill Davis, is an American author, young earth creationist, and intelligent design proponent.
Sexual Violence: Opposing Viewpoints is a book, in the Opposing Viewpoints series, presenting selections of contrasting viewpoints on four central questions about sexual violence: what causes it; whether it is a serious problem; how society should address it; and how it can be reduced.
 It was edited by Helen Cothran.
Terrorism: Opposing Viewpoints is a book, in the Opposing Viewpoints series, presenting selections of contrasting viewpoints on four central questions about terrorism: whether it is a serious threat; what causes it; how America's domestic war on it should be conducted; and how the international community should respond to it.
 It was edited by Laura K. Egendorf.
Robert L.
 Last is a plant biochemical genomicist who studies metabolic processes that protect plants from the environment and produce products important for animal and human nutrition.
 His research has covered (1) production and breakdown of essential amino acids, (2) the synthesis and protective roles of Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) and Vitamin E (tocopherols) as well as identification of mechanisms that protect photosystem II from damage, and (3) synthesis and biological functions of plant protective specialized metabolites (plant secondary metabolites).
 Four central questions are: (i) how are leaf and seed amino acids levels regulated, (ii.)
 what mechanisms protect and repair photosystem II from stress-induced damage, (iii.)
 how do plants produce protective metabolites in their glandular secreting trichomes (iv.)
 and what are the evolutionary mechanisms that contribute to the tremendous diversity of specialized metabolites that protect plants from insects and pathogens and are used as therapeutic agents.
Philosophy of motion is a branch of philosophy concerned with exploring questions on the existence and nature of motion.
 The central questions of this study concern the epistemology and ontology of motion, whether motion exists as we perceive it, what is it, and, if it exists, how does it occur.
 The philosophy of motion is important in the study of theories of change in natural systems and is closely connected to studies of space and time in philosophy.
​Pan Wenshi(潘文石) is Peking University professor.
 His research works on giant panda, white-headed langur and Chinese white dolphin in the last 36 years are internationally recognized contributions.
 Pan had authored and co-authored 40 – 50 treatises published on various domestic and international journals including National Geographic and Nature and he is renowned for his academic achievements on researching the 3 near-extinct contemporary species.
 In his book The Natural Refuge of Giant Panda at Qinling (秦嶺大熊猫的自然庇護所) co-authored with postgraduates under his supervision, researchers and other collaborators, Pan put forward for the first time arguments supporting “giant pandas in Qinling can survive living in natural conditions” which was acclaimed by international peers to be “significant contribution to the biological theory of giant panda”.
 Following that in his book Chance for Continual Survival (繼績生存的機會) Pan commented that “since the cause leading to the near-extinct of giant panda was human error, it must require human to rectify their acts in order giant pandas could have a chance for continual survival”.
 In the book The White Dolphins of Qinzhou (欽州的白海豚) Prof. Pan and his co-authors unveiled that Chinese white dolphin appeared in Beibu Gulf only from 6000 years ago and that in the Beibu Gulf population is preserved an ancient and rare genotype that is so far never found in populations in other territorial waters.
 In the book he as well suggested that the social developments of Qinzhou must be planned to optimize a win-win situation between its economy and nature conservation for that is the only way to achieve sustainable development.
 The Natural History of White-headed Langur (白頭葉猴自然史) is a live record of researches in wilderness.
 When Prof. Pan went into the Nongguan Mountains he noticed there the sustenance environment was almost totally devastated and that “human was suffering more miserably than the langurs there”.
 In view of which he suggested “the core issue of nature conservation in Nongguan Mountains is to improve the living conditions of the people there.
 Only after people’s lives been improved could white-headed langur conservation be anticipated”.
 20 years practice of his words has proved his foresight; during the period the white-headed langur population in Nongguan Mountains has increased from the initial of about 100 individuals to about 820 individuals, and the people there have as well gradually improved their livings to well-off standard.
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Baylisascaris shroederi, common name giant panda roundworm, is a roundworm (nematode), found ubiquitously in giant pandas of central China, the definitive hosts.
 Baylisascaris larvae in paratenic hosts can migrate, causing visceral larva migrans (VLM).
 Baylisascariasis is characterized by the zoonotic infection of Baylisascaris roundworm humans, no cases have ever been reported globally.
 It is extremely dangerous to the host due to the ability of the parasite's larvae to migrate into brain tissue and cause damage.
 Concern for human infection is minimalized as there are very few giant pandas living today and most people do not encounter giant pandas in their everyday activities.
 There is growing recognition that the infection of "Baylisascaris shroederi" is one of the major causes of death in the species This is confirmed by a report stating that during the period of 2001 to 2005; about 50% of deaths in wild giant pandas were caused by the parasite infection.
A Separate Creation: The Search for the Biological Origins of Sexual Orientation is a 1996 book about the development of sexual orientation by the journalist Chandler Burr.
 The book had a mixed reception.
Terrorism: Opposing Viewpoints is a book, in the Opposing Viewpoints series, presenting selections of contrasting viewpoints on four central questions about terrorism: whether it is a serious threat; what motivates it; whether it can be justified; and how the United States should respond to it.
 It was edited by Laura K. Egendorf.