Professor of anthropology and biological sciences at the University of Southern California (USC), Christopher Boehm is a cultural anthropologist who is currently studying the evolution of the human conscience and social selection as an agency for the development of altruistic behavior in human beings. As director of USC’s Jane Goodall Research Center, he is creating a multi-media interactive database focusing on the social and moral behavior of world hunter-gatherers. Dr. Boehm graduated from Antioch College and received his Ph.D. in social anthropology from Harvard University in 1972. He then joined the anthropology faculty of Sarah Lawrence College as an assistant professor and, in 1974, moved on to Northwestern University where he taught for four years. He was appointed associate professor of anthropology and chair of the Department of Anthropology, Philosophy, and Sociology at Northern Kentucky University in 1978 and promoted to full professor four years later. He came to USC in 1991 as a visiting professor of anthropology and acting chair of the Goodall Center and was appointed professor of anthropology and director of the center the next year. He was named to his present academic position in 2003. Dr. Boehm has been a visiting scholar in anthropology at Harvard and a Weatherhead Fellow at the School of American Research in Santa Fe. His field research has been conducted among the Navajo and among tribal Serbs, and he has studied conflict resolution among chimpanzees at the Gombe National Park in Tanzania. He has received support for his work from the Ford Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the H.F. Guggenheim Foundation, the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation, the Jane Goodall Institute, the John Templeton Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Dr. Boehm received the 1992 Stirling Prize in Psychological Anthropology awarded by the American Anthropological Association. In 2001, he delivered the keynote address at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Conference on Biodiversity. The author of more than fifty papers published in scientific journals, he is the editor of a special issue of Human Nature on group selection and the author of three books: Montenegrin Social Organization and Values: A Political Ethnography of a Refuge Area Tribal Adaptation (1983), Blood Revenge: The Anthropology of Feuding in Montenegro and Other Nonliterate Societies (1984, 1986, and 1998), and, most recently, Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior, a study of hunter-gatherer and tribal societies that promote generosity, altruism, and sharing, which compares human behavior with that of non-human primates and was published in 1999 by Harvard University Press. Dr. Boehm is presently writing a natural history of morals.