Lixing Sun Ph.D.

Lixing Sun, Ph.D., received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from East China Normal University in Shanghai, China, and his Ph.D. from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry and Syracuse University (behavior and evolution).

After a stint as a postdoc fellow at University of Texas at Austin, he has been a faculty member at Central Washington University. His scholarly credential includes more than 60 journal articles, nine chapters in academic books, and coeditor of an academic book (Behavioral Ecology of the Tibetan Macaque, Springer, 2019). He has also authored or coauthored The World of Animals (Shanghai Education Press, 1988), The Beaver – Natural History of a Wetlands Engineer (Comstock Books, 2002), The Fairness Instinct: The Robinhood Mentality and Our Biological Nature (Prometheus Books, 2013), and The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars: Cheating and Deception in the Living World (Princeton University Press, 2023). He was recognized as the Distinguished Research Professor of Central Washington University in 2020.