Matthew Tontonoz has been a development editor for textbooks in introductory biology, cell biology, evolution, and environmental science. He received his B.A. in biology from Wesleyan University, where he did research on the neurobiology of birdsong, and his M.A. in the history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied the history of the behavioral and life sciences. His writing has appeared in Science as Culture. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.