ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

All of the following human people contributed in some way to the ideas I’ve written about in these pages, and I am very grateful to all of them, even the ones that don’t exist: Alex Garland, Andrew Mueller, Aoife McLysaght, Beatrice Rutherford, Ben Garrod, Caroline Dodds Pennock, Cass Sheppard, Cat Hobaiter, the Celeriacs, David Spiegelhalter, Elspeth Merry Price, Francesca Stavrakopoulou, Hannah Fry, Helen Lewis, Henry Marsh, Ieuan Thomas, James Shapiro, Jennifer Raff, John Ottaway, Jon Payne, Kate Fox, Lynsey Mathew, Mark Thomas, Michelle Martin, Nathan Bateman, OAs Elite Coaching Crew, Rachel Harrison, Robbie Murray, Rufus Hound, Sarah Phelps, Simon Fisher, Stephen Keeler and Tom Piper. And to Georgia Rutherford, who is the very best of us.

Particular thanks go to the unreasonably talented Alice Roberts for her highly evolved hands, and for guiding mine. To Matthew Cobb, whose edits are a joy to behold. To Will Francis for our ongoing journey, and most of all to Jenny Lord and Holly Harley, two of the most thoughtful, fun and brilliant humans with whom to share ideas and craft stories.