Thomas Kraft is a biological anthropologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He studies health in transitioning subsistence populations and has worked with the Batek of Peninsular Malaysia and Tsimane of Bolivia.
Vivek Venkataraman is a biological anthropologist at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Toulouse, France and a Research Associate in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. He is a behavioral ecologist interested in the evolution of the human diet, with a current focus on the ecology and energetics of human subsistence strategies.
Kirk M. Endicott is a sociocultural anthropologist who retired in 2011 after teaching for 29 years at Dartmouth College, where he is now a Professor Emeritus. He conducted pioneering ethnographic studies among the Batek of Peninsular Malaysia between 1971 and 2004, with special interest in hunter-gatherer economies, social organization and behavior, gender relations, and religions and in human rights problems of indigenous peoples.