could expect remuneration. As tensions mounted the Mexican partner withdrew its support for the project, and later the NIH, which caused the project to be closed down in 2001 - without having been able to produce any results. The Maya ICBG case was among the first to draw attention to the problems of distinguishing between bioprospecting and biopiracy, and to the difficulties of securing community participation and prior informed consent for bioprospectors. Select publications Berlin, Brent. 1968. Tzeltal Numeral Classifiers: A Study in Ethnographic Semantics. The Hague: Janua Linguarum. Berlin, Brent. 1992. Ethnobiological classification: principles of categorization of plants and animals in traditional societies. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Berlin, Brent. 1995. "Huambisa Sound Symbolism." In Sound symbolism, edited by Leanne Hinton, Johanna Nichols, and John J. Ohala. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press. Berlin, Elois Ann, and Brent Berlin. 1996. Medical ethnobiology of the Highland Maya of Chiapas, Mexico: the gastrointestinal diseases. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Recognition National Academy of Sciences 1980 Fyssen Foundation Prize 2000 Distinguished Economic Botanist Award with Elois Ann Berlin 2008 References 1936 births American anthropologists American anthropology writers American male non-fiction writers Anthropological linguists Ethnobiologists Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Living people Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Stanford University alumni University of Georgia faculty Fellows of the Cognitive Science Society