Sharon Moalem has a Ph. D. in the emerging fields of neurogenetics and evolutionary medicine. His research has discovered a new genetic association for familial Alzheimer disease. He has also published on the adaptive advantages of the genetic mutations that cause Hemochromatosis. Previous to that he studied how bees make their own antibiotics when they get sick as well as how plants clean up a toxic waste by extracting metals from the soil.
Jonathan Prince was a senior adviser and speechwriter in the Clinton White House and oversaw communications strategy at NATO during the war in Kosovo.
He was named one of America's Best and Brightest by Esquire in 2005 for his work to improve political advertising. With former U. S. senator John Edwards and Edwards's daughter Cate, Prince edited Home: The Blueprints of Our Lives.