Sue Taylor Parker is a professor of anthropology at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California. Her works include ""Language" and Intelligence in Monkeys and Apes, Self-Awareness in Animals and Humans, Reaching into Thought, "and "Naming Our Ancestors."Michael L. McKinney is an associate professor of geological sciences at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and author of several books, including "Heterochrony."