About the Author

ROB DUNN is a professor in the department of applied ecology at North Carolina State University and in the Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate at the Danish Natural History Museum. He is the author of The Man Who Touched His Own Heart, The Wild Life of Our Bodies, and Every Living Thing, and his magazine work is published widely, including in National Geographic, Natural History, New Scientist, Scientific American, and Smithsonian. He has a PhD from the University of Connecticut and was a Fulbright fellow. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.