David Suzuki is an acclaimed geneticist and environmentalist, and the founder and chair of the David Suzuki Foundation. He is the author of more than forty books and is the recipient of the UNESCO Kalinga Prize for Science, the United Nations Environmental Medal, the UNEP’s Global 500 award, and has been named a Companion of the Order of Canada. In addition, he holds eighteen honorary degrees and he has been adopted into three First Nations clans. Suzuki lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Holly Dressel, co-author of From Naked Ape to Superspecies, has been a writer/researcher for television, film and radio for 20 years. She has worked for CBC TV’s The Nature of Things, as well as on other television documentaries such as The Cola Wars and Memoirs of Pierre Elliott Trudeau. She was a researcher on Gwynne Dyer’s celebrated film series War. Dressel lives on a farm near Montréal with a changing parade of family, friends and animals.