The Life of a Scientist -- to the Festschrift -- Elwyn LaVerne Simons -- A Personal Reminiscence of Elwyn -- Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark -- Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark -- Human Evolution and the Challenge of Creationism -- The Fayum and Other Fossil Adventures -- Five Decades in the Fayum -- Geology, Paleoenvironment, and Age of Birket Qarun Locality 2 (BQ-2), Fayum Depression, Egypt -- Eocene and Oligocene Mammals of the Fayum, Egypt -- Early Evolution of Whales -- The Basicranial Anatomy of African Eocene/Oligocene Anthropoids. Are There Any Clues for Platyrrhine Origins? -- Paleontological Exploration in Africa -- Return to Dor al-Talha -- Revisiting Haritalyangar, the Late Miocene Ape Locality of India -- Revisiting Primate Postcrania from the Pondaung Formation of Myanmar -- A Haplorhine First Metatarsal from the Middle Eocene of China -- New Data on Loveina (Primates: Omomyidae) from the early Eocene Wasatch Formation and Implications for Washakiin Relationships -- The Behavioral Ecology of our Earliest Hominid Ancestors -- The Fayum and Other Fossil Adventures -- Decades of Lemur Research and Conservation -- Low Fetal Energy Deposition Rates in Lemurs -- Old Lemurs -- Peculiar Tooth Homologies of the Greater Bamboo Lemur (Prolemur = Hapalemur simus) -- How Big were the “Giant” Extinct Lemurs of Madagascar? -- Ghosts and Orphans -- Vicariance vs. Dispersal in the Origin of the Malagasy Mammal Fauna -- On the Brink of Extinction.