Carl Zimmer is the author of 13 books about science. His newest book is She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Power, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity. His column, 'Matter', appears each week in the New York Times. Zimmer's writing has earned a number of awards, including the 2016 Stephen Jay Gould Prize, awarded by the Society for the Study of Evolution to recognise individuals whose sustained efforts have advanced public understanding of evolutionary science. In 2017, he won an Online Journalism Award for his series of articles in which he explored his genome. A professor adjunct at Yale University, Zimmer is a familiar voice on programs such as Radiolab. He lives in Connecticut with his wife Grace and their children, Charlotte and Veronica. He is, to his knowledge, the only writer after whom a species of tapeworm has been named. Joe Ochman is a prolific voice artist as well as actor and stage director, working primarily as a voice actor for English dubs for Japanese cartoons. His first voice role was in 1989 for Patlabor: The Movie in which he was credited under the name Joey Lotsko. Since then, Ochman has worked extensively in providing voices for films, television shows and video games, and has taken supporting and minor screen roles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Desperate Housewives, Garfield: The Movie and Will & Grace, among others.
'No one unravels the mysteries of science as brilliantly and compellingly as Carl Zimmer, and he has proven it again with She Has Her Mother's Laugh--a sweeping, magisterial book that illuminates the very nature of who we are.' -- David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author and award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker 'She Has Her Mother's Laugh is a masterpiece - a career-best work from one of the world's premier science writers, on a topic that literally touches every person on the planet.' -- Ed Yong, author of New York Times bestseller I Contain Multitudes and staff writer at The Atlantic