Brian Switek is a freelance science writer specializing in evolution, paleontology, natural history, and the history of science. He blogs regularly at WIRED Science's Laelaps and Smithsonian magazine's Dinosaur Tracking.

Brian's critically-acclaimed debut - Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature - is now available through Bellevue Literary Press and Icon Books. His next book - A Date With a Dinosaur - will be published by Scientific American/FSG in early 2013.