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To Connie, Bill and Ken, and to our extended families.
(This consists of nth cousins variously removed, dear reader, so you are no doubt included too.)
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A NOTE ON THE COVER ART
The central image on the front cover is Peaceable Kingdom by Edward Hicks, one of several
variations on this theme. Reading clockwise from the upper left, the framing works are: Monet’s
Cliff at Etretat; Bruegel the Elder’s Tower of Babel (“great” version); Rembrandt’s Conus
marmoreus (shell); Henri Rousseau’s Apes in a Grove; Rodin’s Thinker; Earth from space; sample
sketches of Darwin’s finches; Daumier’s Don Quixote; Seurat’s La Grande Jatte; George
Richmond’s portrait of Charles Darwin; Rockwell’s The Problem We All Live With; a Canaletto
view of San Marco Square in Venice; Volterra’s bust of Michelangelo; da Vinci’s Vetruvius Man;
and Constable’s Hay Wain. Allusions to each, some more subtle than others, appear at various
points in the text.
Along with relevant terms and phrases, the back cover includes figures from the text, segments
from Muybridge’s photography of animal motion and amateur art by the author (some is
distantly related to the front cover art). The central image, just above center, is B. F. Skinner.
Other photographs, reading clockwise from noon: Bea Barrett and George Reynolds; the author
with Eliot Shimoff during a classroom pigeon demonstration; Harvard’s Memorial Hall; the
author in San Marco Square in Venice; Ivan Pavlov; Deisy de Souza and João Todorov; Terje
Sagvolden as a speck in the distance taking a picture of the mountains near Tromsø, Norway;
an infant in an Aircrib; Nat Schoenfeld and Fred Keller; Pauline Horne and Fergus Lowe; and
Naoko Sugiyama with Koichi Ono and other Japanese scholars.