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Jonathan Kingdon was born in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) in 1935. As a biologist he is largely self-taught. He received his formal artistic training at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford and the Royal College of Art in London. Kingdon is a senior research associate at the Institute of Biological Anthropology and department of zoology at the University of Oxford. His latest book, Lowly Origin (Princeton University Press), tackles the question of why our ancestors stood up on two legs. The millennium issue of American Scientist named Kingdon’s East African Mammals (Academic Press, 1997) as one of the “100…