Robert Anemone is a biological anthropologist and Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Western Michigan University. Born and raised in New York City and a member of the last graduating class at Brooklyn Prep High School (1972), he graduated from the University of Oregon with a BA in Anthropology in 1977, and earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Washington (1988). He is a vertebrate paleontologist who specializes in primate and human evolution and has done fieldwork in Montana, Wyoming, Kenya, and South Africa. He has published in many anthropology journals: his first book, "Race and Human Diversity: A Biocultural Approach", was published by Prentice-Hall in 2010. He lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan with his wife Joyce Kubiski, their 4 teenage children, and 3 dogs.