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evolution skeptics out of the dark (Dobzhansky 1973).
III . This problem is called “the tragedy of the commons” (Hardin 1968).
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
First and foremost, thank you for reading this book.
There are many people to thank for helping me put this book together. I am grateful to Jeff Kleinman and Michelle Brower of Folio Literary Management for asking me what book I’d most like to write and then pushing me to think beyond the bat book I proposed in response. I’m also extremely grateful to Michelle Howry of Touchstone for believing in this book, for her edits and comments as I wrote, and for her patience and positivity throughout the writing process.
I also thank Susan Moldow, Stacy Creamer, David Falk, Sally Kim, Jessica Roth, Meredith Vilarello, Ana Paula de Lima, Martha Schwartz, George Turianski, Joy O’Meara, and Peg Haller, at Touchstone Books in New York, along with Kevin Hanson, David Millar, Alison Clarke, Sheila Haidon, Felicia Quon, MaximillianArambulo, Michelle Blackwell, Andrea Seto, and April Gibson at Simon & Schuster Canada, for their enthusiastic support of this book.
I am grateful to the scientists who have helped me shape my view of the world. Brock Fenton, John Hermanson, Sharon Swartz, and Tom Kunz supervised me through my graduate studies and postdocs, but there have been countless others—professors, postdocs, instructors, graduate students, and undergraduates who have also contributed to my education. I reached out to a few of those people while writing this book, and I thank Attila Bergou, Gerry Carter, Rulon Clark, Christina Davy, Yvonne Dzal, Leif Einarson, Brock Fenton, Patrick Flight, Megan Frederickson, Matt Heard, John Hermanson, John Hutchinson, Emily MacLeod, Troy Murphy, Matt Ogburn, John Ratcliffe, Shelby Riskin, Jaime Tanner, and Amity Wilczek for their helpful responses. I’m also grateful to the legion of scientists who wrote the two hundred plus scientific articles I drew upon while writing this book. None of this would be possible without their curiosity and hard work.
In the world of TV, Beth Hoppe has been very much like an academic advisor to me. She gave me my start on a show about evolution and then spent several years training me to be an effective communicator of science. The fact that I had the opportunity to write this book is a direct result of her support.
I wrote this book while working full-time at Discovery Canada’s Daily Planet , and I thank my colleagues there for their patience while I did so. I’m especially grateful to Paul Lewis, Ken McDonald, Kelly McKeown, and Ziya Tong, but there are more than a hundred other people there who help make that show happen five days a week, and I thank them all for their support whileI worked on this book. Thanks also to Marilyn Haft for helping me juggle these various parts of my career.
I thank my mother, Mary W. Walters, who is a great editor (and also a fabulous author of fiction, by the way), for helping me tighten my writing and for supporting my wacky career in general. Mom, you’re brilliant, and if I look half-smart sometimes, it’s only because you teached me so good. I also thank my family for their support.
It’s somewhat perverse that I took so much time away from Sam and Shelby to write a book about my love for Sam and Shelby, but somehow that’s what happened. Shelby knew how much this book meant to me, helped me free up the time I needed to get it written, and offered many invaluable suggestions to help me improve the book itself. Thank you both.
Toronto
September 2013
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REFERENCES
Akre, K. L., H. E. Farris, A. M. Lea, R. A. Page, and M. J. Ryan. 2011. Signal perception in frogs and the evolution of mating
III . This problem is called “the tragedy of the commons” (Hardin 1968).
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
First and foremost, thank you for reading this book.
There are many people to thank for helping me put this book together. I am grateful to Jeff Kleinman and Michelle Brower of Folio Literary Management for asking me what book I’d most like to write and then pushing me to think beyond the bat book I proposed in response. I’m also extremely grateful to Michelle Howry of Touchstone for believing in this book, for her edits and comments as I wrote, and for her patience and positivity throughout the writing process.
I also thank Susan Moldow, Stacy Creamer, David Falk, Sally Kim, Jessica Roth, Meredith Vilarello, Ana Paula de Lima, Martha Schwartz, George Turianski, Joy O’Meara, and Peg Haller, at Touchstone Books in New York, along with Kevin Hanson, David Millar, Alison Clarke, Sheila Haidon, Felicia Quon, MaximillianArambulo, Michelle Blackwell, Andrea Seto, and April Gibson at Simon & Schuster Canada, for their enthusiastic support of this book.
I am grateful to the scientists who have helped me shape my view of the world. Brock Fenton, John Hermanson, Sharon Swartz, and Tom Kunz supervised me through my graduate studies and postdocs, but there have been countless others—professors, postdocs, instructors, graduate students, and undergraduates who have also contributed to my education. I reached out to a few of those people while writing this book, and I thank Attila Bergou, Gerry Carter, Rulon Clark, Christina Davy, Yvonne Dzal, Leif Einarson, Brock Fenton, Patrick Flight, Megan Frederickson, Matt Heard, John Hermanson, John Hutchinson, Emily MacLeod, Troy Murphy, Matt Ogburn, John Ratcliffe, Shelby Riskin, Jaime Tanner, and Amity Wilczek for their helpful responses. I’m also grateful to the legion of scientists who wrote the two hundred plus scientific articles I drew upon while writing this book. None of this would be possible without their curiosity and hard work.
In the world of TV, Beth Hoppe has been very much like an academic advisor to me. She gave me my start on a show about evolution and then spent several years training me to be an effective communicator of science. The fact that I had the opportunity to write this book is a direct result of her support.
I wrote this book while working full-time at Discovery Canada’s Daily Planet , and I thank my colleagues there for their patience while I did so. I’m especially grateful to Paul Lewis, Ken McDonald, Kelly McKeown, and Ziya Tong, but there are more than a hundred other people there who help make that show happen five days a week, and I thank them all for their support whileI worked on this book. Thanks also to Marilyn Haft for helping me juggle these various parts of my career.
I thank my mother, Mary W. Walters, who is a great editor (and also a fabulous author of fiction, by the way), for helping me tighten my writing and for supporting my wacky career in general. Mom, you’re brilliant, and if I look half-smart sometimes, it’s only because you teached me so good. I also thank my family for their support.
It’s somewhat perverse that I took so much time away from Sam and Shelby to write a book about my love for Sam and Shelby, but somehow that’s what happened. Shelby knew how much this book meant to me, helped me free up the time I needed to get it written, and offered many invaluable suggestions to help me improve the book itself. Thank you both.
Toronto
September 2013
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REFERENCES
Akre, K. L., H. E. Farris, A. M. Lea, R. A. Page, and M. J. Ryan. 2011. Signal perception in frogs and the evolution of mating
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