David Williams Phd, author of The Trickster Brain: Neuroscience, Evolution, and Narrative, holds a BA in Anthropology as well as a M.A. and PhD in English Literature & Writing.  He has worked in an interdisciplinary fashion his whole life: Emmy winning songwriter for his environmental work with PBS, cartoonist for many newspapers and magazines, children’s author with Random House, fiction writer, science writer, gypsy jazz & blues guitar & violinist.  He is also a literary songwriter in americana and folk and has been a professor of Creative Writing and American Literature at a number of universities in the US.  Delving into neuroscience and evolutionary psychology some 15 years ago, David began to feel that many of the paradigms he learned from the Humanities were wrong and that the Humanities and Sciences needed to come together to portray a more accurate view of our species.  This led David toward a biological approach, following scientists such as  biologist-- E.O. Wilson and neuroscientist-- Antonio Damasio, believing that current advances in neuroscience, sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, and genetics, are providing a more factual and verifiable explanation of who we are.