ANTHONY D. BARNOSKY,^* BRIAN P. KRAATZ<sup>*


*</sup>Anthony D. Barnosky (e-mail: barnosky@berkeley.edu) is a professor of integrative biology, curator of paleontology at the Museum of Paleontology, and a research paleoecologist in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720. His work focuses on understanding the effects of environmental changes on ecosystems, with a particular emphasis on mammalian communities. Brian P. Kraatz is a PhD candidate and National Science Foundation GK–12 fellow in the same department and at the Museum of Paleontology. His work focuses on the evolution of mammals and on communicating science to students from K–12 through university levels. This article emerged from a symposium entitled “Evolution and the Environment,” organized by the American Institute of Biological Sciences, the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, and the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study and held at the 2005 annual meeting of the National Association of Biology Teachers.