Adjunct Professor, Biology Department, Villanova University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Michael R. Zimmerman, MD, PhD is an anthropologist and retired pathologist. His research is in mummy paleopathology, with field work in Egypt and Alaska. A charter member of the Paleopathology Association, he teaches courses in Paleopathology, History of Disease, Medical Anthropology and Forensic Anthropology and has well over 100 scientific publications and speaking engagements.