Editor SchopfJ. William Schopf, Editor, University of California at Los Angeles A member of the Department of Earth and Space Science, the Molecular Biology Institute, and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) at the University of California, Ls Angeles. At UCLA he has been honored as the Faculty Research Lecturer and is recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award and of the Faculty Prize for Academic Excellence. Discoverer of the oldest fossil now known on Earth, he has pursued geological and biological field studies in Australia, India, China, Europe, South Africa, North America, and the former Soviet Union. Read More Read Less