David P. Barash is professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Washington and has received numerous grants and awards. A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he has authored more than 250 peer-reviewed technical articles, published op-eds in The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times, contributed to The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Harvard Business Review, The History News Network, Psychology Today, among other publications, and has written, co-authored, and edited more than forty books. He lives in Goleta, California with his wife, four cats, three dogs and a horse.