Jen Kuzara: Your feedback was especially precise and your feminist perspectives, extremely valuable. Benjamin Purzycki: Thank you for your thoughtful input from cover to cover, for your encouragement, and for our engaging conversations.

Erin: No one helped me as much or in so many ways as you. Your editing was not only tireless and brilliant, but given with such inspiration that you made the strenuous process of writing a book a breathtaking, contemplative journey. This book, and the growth it afforded me, would not be possible without you.

My father: You sat me down at a very young age and taught me biology, evolution, and defiant intellectualism. Your history, your heritage, and your resistance to the abuse of power live on in the pages of this book.

Lastly, I thank all the great thinkers who have come before. You form the bedrock on which all of science is built. Your fire, your vision, and your great personal risks are not forgotten.