Henry Hermann, author, co-author, and editor of 13 books on diverse science topics, has been a biologist, professor, and writer most of his life. Much of his research and writing have been directed toward understanding the behavior of social animals.

In writing Beginnings, he has succeeded in portraying early humans, their behavior, and environment as they actually must have been 200,000 years ago, resulting in their emergence from an animalistic world as elite bipedal primates.