Philip Kreager, Senior Research Fellow in Human Sciences, Somerville College, and Lecturer and Tutor in Demography, Institute of Human Sciences, Oxford University,Bruce Winney, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford,Stanley Ulijaszek, Professor of Human Ecology, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University,Cristian Capelli, University Lecturer in Human Evolution, Department of Zoology, Oxford University

Philip Kreager is an anthropological demographer and historian of population thought and analysis. He is Senior Research Fellow in Human Sciences, Somerville College; Director, Fertility and Reproductive Studies Group, School of Anthropology; Lecturer and Tutor in Population, Institute of Human Sciences; and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Population Ageing, Oxford University. He currently co-directs an exploratory anthropological and demographic study of problems of malaria treatment in the eastern archipelago of Indonesia. During 1999-2007 he directed Ageing in Indonesia, a multi-site longitudinal study of ageing in three Indonesian Communities, supported by the Welcome Trust. This work has led to continuing collaboration with the University of Indonesia, where he is Honorary Professor. Dr Kreager has a primary interest in the history of population thought, particularly as a common ground of theory and analysis linking the biological and social sciences.

Jere R. Behrman, W. R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
Walter Bodmer, Head, Cancer and Immunogenetics Laboratory, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford
Melissa J. Brown, Frieda L. Miller Fellow in Anthropology, Minnesota Population Center
Francesc Calafell, Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Cristian Capelli, RCUK Academic Fellow in Human Evolution, Department of Zoology, Oxford University
David Comas, Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Jason Dunn, Centre for Anatomical and Human Sciences, Hull York Medical School, University of Hull
Sarah Elton, Reader, Department of Anthropology, Durham University
Mark Elvin, St Antony's College, Oxford University
Simon Gregson, Professor in Demography and Behavioural Science, Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London
Michael Gurven, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Tim Hallett, Professor of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London
Stéphane Helleringer, Assistant Professor of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Paul L. Hooper, Omidyar Fellow, Santa Fe Institute, Sante Fe, New Mexico
Graeme Hugo, ARC Professorial Fellow and Professor of Geography; Director, Australian Population and Migration Research Centre, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Hillard Kaplan, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico
Hans-Peter Kohler, Frederick J. Warren Professor of Demography, Department of Sociology and Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania
Philip Kreager, Senior Research Fellow in Human Sciences, Somerville College; Lecturer and Tutor in Demography, Institute of Human Sciences; Director, Fertility and Reproductive Studies Group, School of Anthropology, Oxford University
Stephen Kunitz, Professor Emeritus, Division of Social and Behavioral Medicine, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
Jennifer A. Johnson-Hanks, Associate Professor, Departments of Demography and Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Daniel John Lawson, Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research, University of Bristol
Klim McPherson, Visiting Professor in Epidemiology, Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Oxford University
John Odling-Smee, Mansfield College and School of Anthropology, Oxford University
Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill, Lecturer in Social Gerontology, Centre for Research on Ageing, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, Southampton University
Chris Spencer, Fellow, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford University
Jonathan Stieglitz, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico
Mikolaj Szoltysek, Research Scientist/ Deputy Head, Laboratory of Historical Demography,
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Simon Szreter, Professor of History and Public Policy, St John's College, Cambridge University
Stanley Ulijaszek, Professor of Human Ecology, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University
Kenneth W. Wachter, Professor, Departments of Demography and Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Susan C. Watkins, Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania
Bruce Winney, Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Oxford University

"Ultimately, philosophically inclined readers and historians of science may get the most out of this book, as it offers a panoramic view of the of human sciences." --Quarterly Review of Biology