John H. Schumann is Professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics and TESL at the University of California Los Angeles, where he served as chair for 16 years, and a member of the Center for Behavior Evolution and Culture and the Center for Culture, Brain and Development, both also at UCLA. He has published widely in the areas of second language acquisition, neurobiology of language, and language evolution. He is the general editor of The Language Learning-Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Cognitive Neuroscience Series.