Acknowledgments

My deepest debt of gratitude belongs to Barbara McClintock for sharing her friendship and wise scientific insights with me over the last dozen-plus years of her life. She opened my eyes to a freer way of thinking about science in general and evolution in particular. Next comes Bill Hayes, my doctoral supervisor, who taught me the virtues of experimental simplicity, close observation, and logical thinking without preconceptions. He was an outstanding example of humane mentoring in an otherwise highly competitive field of scholarship.

This book had its genesis in two critical events separated by 15 years. In 1993, I was lucky enough to win the Darwin Prize Visiting Professorship from the University of Edinburgh. The accompanying ...

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