About the Author

Kenneth Kardong is professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Washington State University. His advanced degrees are from the University of Washington (Seattle), and the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana). He has taught courses in histology, embryology, and introductory biology, as well as courses in vertebrate evolution and in Darwinian principles of evolution to biology teachers, science majors, and to students in business and the humanities. His research centers on the evolution of complex systems, with particular interest in the process involved in the evolution of venomous snakes from non-venomous ancestors. He has authored over eighty scientific publications as well as the textbook, Vertebrates: Anatomy, Function, Evolution.

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