Dr. Merritt Ruhlen Stanford University, USA

Merritt Ruhlen received his undergraduate training at Rice University and his PhD in linguistics from Stanford University, after study at the University of Paris, the University of Illinois and the University of Bucharest. He has been a lecturer in the Department of Anthropological Sciences at Stanford University since 1994 and... read moreco-director of the Evolution of Human Languages program at the Santa Fe Institute since 2001. His main area of interest is the linguistic evidence for the origin and evolution of modern humans, especially the peopling of the Americas.