Heather Trexler Remoff, Ph.D.

[2002]

Heather Remoff is an anthropologist with an interest in evolutionary theory. While conducting empirical research for her dissertation, she became convinced that Thomas Malthus had introduced a flawed understanding of human evolution into Darwin's grand theory. A Malthusian emphasis on numbers had caused Darwin to underestimate the importance of economic behavior as a factor of evolution. After receiving her Ph.D. from Rutgers in 1980, she began self-education in economics. Only when she discovered Henry George did all the pieces fall into place. Land is the missing link between economics and biology. Remoff maintains that economics is a bio-social science that is best understood from a Georgist perspective.

Remoff also received an MA in Sociology from the University of Missouri and a BA in the same field from the Pennsylvania State University. She is Assistant Editor with Lionel Tiger, Editor, of Female Hierarchies (Beresford Book Service, 1978). She is the author of Sexual Choice (E. P. Dutton, 1984) and of February Light (St Martin's Press, 1997). She is currently working on a trilogy, The Fall of Riddles, which uses fantasy to explore the role of land monopoly in environmental destruction and class and gender conflicts. In Book Three, a Georgist solution will be employed to achieve a just society. Book One, Ravenheart, is completed and is under consideration by major publishing houses.

Dr. Remoff's work has been reviewed and excerpted in numerous periodicals in the United States and Canada and has been included in several anthologies. The Chinese language edition of February Light will be published in 2001. Remoff has discussed her original research on human courtship behavior on over one hundred radio and TV talk shows, including Today, Donahue, Merv Griffin, Regis Philbin, and Sally Jessy Raphael. She has also been interviewed on a Discovery Channel special and will discuss human evolution on a Learning Channel special sometime in 2001.

Heather Remoff lives in Eagles Mere, PA with her husband, Gene.