Erika Erdmann worked as Roger Sperry's library research assistant for the last decade of the Nobel laureate's life. Her Ph.D. thesis examined the links between science and the formation of human values. She has published several books, as well as popular articles and several scientific papers in such periodicals as The Futurist, the Newsletter of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science, and Behavioral Biology.

Publisher of the journal, Humankind Advancing, devoted to the search for, and promotion of, material promising to lead Humankind toward more farsighted, responsible attitudes

She lives in Lockeport, Nova Scotia, Canada, where she networks via e-mail and "snail-mail" with a wide variety of thinkers and researchers - including Robert Muller, former assistant secretary-general of the United Nations - on ways to promote a more humane future for the human species.