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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks to Dr. Donald Lovett, one of the foremost authorities on osmo-regulation in crustaceans, for his enthusiasm, patience, and courage, no matter how frightening the ride became.

Jennifer Limber, Mike Fahy, Daren Bader, Phil Steele, Kate Jones, and so many others were the autotrophs of the Henders ecosystem. And especially Michael Limber.

Stephen Jay Gould for his fantastic journey through evolution, Wonderful Life.

Dr. Michael E. Dawson of the Associates of Cape Cod lab for giving me the same tour Geoffrey took. Dr. Mark McMenamin, years ago, for letting me know that the fossil I found at the Marble Mountain in California was just a ball of algae and a trilobite leg that washed ashore on an ancient beach. Good enough for me-wow.

My beautiful editors, Kate Miciak and Sarah Hodgson, who felt it, too; Loren Noveck and Glen Edelstein, for helping to make this dream a reality; Peter McGuigan, Stephanie Abou, Hannah Gordon, and the rest at Foundry, the best.

Verne, Wells, Conan Doyle, Boulez-and Crichton. And a happy 200th to you, Charles Darwin.