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Craig Packer is a Distinguished McNight University Professor of ecology, evolution, and behavior at the University of Minnesota. He attended the University of Sussex in England, where he earned his Ph.D.

Packer has served as director of the National Science Foundation's Serengeti Lion Project.

Packer's early expertise as a student researcher with Jane Goodall's chimpanzees, as well as his own studies of lions in the Serengeti prepared him for the writing of his novel, Into Africa, as well as several articles included in Scientific American, American Naturalist, and Science.

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