Bio

Louis Liebenberg is Co-Founder and Executive Director of CyberTracker Conservation. He is an Associate of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and a Laureate of the 1998 Rolex Awards for Enterprise. Website: http://www.cybertracker.org Software Development: System Design of the CyberTracker software. Author of ''The Origin of Science: The Evolutionary Roots of Scientific Reasoning and its Implications for Citizen Science'' (2013), ''The Art of Tracking: The Origin of Science'' (1990) and ''A Field Guide to the Animal Tracks of Southern Africa'' (1990). Papers published include: “Persistence Hunting by Modern Hunter-Gatherers,” 2006, Current Anthropology. 47:5; “The Relevance of Persistence Hunting to Human Evolution,” 2008, Journal of Human Evolution. 55: 1156-1159; ''Smartphone Icon User Interface design for non-literate trackers and its implications for an inclusive citizen science,'' 2016, Biological Conservation. 208 (2017) 155-162; and ''Tracking Science: An Alternative for Those Excluded by Citizen Science.'' 2021. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice. 6(1): 6, pp. 1–16.