Seeing Evolution — by Getting Really Close

Fred Heeren’s investigations have taken him to fossil sites that tell the story of life’s evolution—from the earliest animals in Cambrian and Precambrian sites across southern China, to the early dinosaurs and mammals in Argentina, to the hominid findings at Koobi Fora, Kenya, to the Romanian Carpathian foothills where he joined cave divers excavating the earliest modern human remains in Europe.

He has covered science news for over a dozen newspapers, magazines, and science journals.

Nobel prize-winning astrophysicist George Smoot says Fred “explores creation where science and religion ask the same questions,” and describes his work as “cutting-edge.” John Mather (Webb Space Telescope senior scientist) says Fred “brings the latest space results down to Earth,” calling his account of modern cosmology “a story well told.”