Joseph L. Graves Jr. is an evolutionary biologist who studies the genomic basis of adaptation in model organisms such as fruit flies and bacteria. He has also written extensively concerning biological and social conceptions of race in humans. He received his Ph.D. from Wayne State University and is currently a professor of biological sciences at North Carolina A&T State University. He is the author of The Emperor’s New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Millennium, The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America, and A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Solve Our Biggest Problems (in press). Graves is currently working on two National Science Foundation projects associated with microbial evolution in bacteria associated with metals and bacteriophages. Follow him on Twitter @gravesjl55.