Kevin N. Laland is Professor of Behavioural and Evolutionary Biology at the University of St Andrews, United Kingdom, and studies animal behavior and evolution, with a specific focus on niche construction, the extended evolutionary synthesis, and the evolution of cognition. He is an Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology. He has published over two hundred scientific articles and is the author or coauthor of several books, including Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour (2002), Niche Construction: The Neglected Process in Evolution (2003), and Social Learning: an Introduction to Mechanisms, Methods and Models (2013).