Barbara J. King
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Barbara J. King is an anthropologist and author. For 28 years she taught biological anthropology, primate behavior, and human evolution at the College of William and Mary. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she is the author of six books, including Evolving God, Personalities on the Plate: The Lives & Minds of Animals We Eat, and How Animals Grieve. For 6 years she contributed weekly to NPR’s 13.7 Cosmos & Culture blog, and her work has appeared also in The Best American Science & Nature Writing, Scientific American, the Atlantic, Aeon, and Undark. She’s a frequent guest on radio (and once in a while TV), reads as much as she possibly can, and writes book essays for the TLS and the Washington Post.