I am an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Florida, where I have been since 1989. I came to linguistics and anthropology after teaching Spanish as a Peace Corps Volunteer on Carriacou, Grenada, 1971-74. From this experience I developed a deep and abiding interest, some might say obsession, with the role of "non-standard" languages in education, and this is reflected in my doctoral research. As a four-field trained anthropologist, I teach and write about a range of topics that includes language, human evolution, human biological and cultural diversity, and the uses of anthropology in helping to explain and solve human problems. As a scientific anthropologist, I am dedicated to research that is empirically based and that has the potential to lead to nomothetic explanations of human nature. Needless to say, the views and opinions presented here do not necessarily reflect those of my corporate masters.