'Kim Sterelny is Professor of Philosophy at ANU and Chief Investigator and leader of the Language Evolution program at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language. He was an ARC Laureate Professor of Philosophy 2014–19. His research in the last decade and a half has been particularly interested in human evolution, and in understanding the evolution of the distinctive features of human social life, and of the cognitive capacities that make that life possible.' (Australian Journal of Biography and History: No. 3, 2020)