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My mentors during my undergraduate education at the University of Oxford, Andrew Pomiankowski and William Hamilton, showed me the extraordinary power and beauty of evolutionary biology, especially the many ways that aesthetics have shaped and diversified sound and other forms of animal communication. Greg Budney, Russ Charif, and Chris Clark were generous guides as I learned sound recording and analysis techniques as a graduate student at Cornell University, and many colleagues at Cornell in the fields of ecology, evolution, and animal behavior deepened my appreciation of evolution’s creative powers.
In the research for this book I made extensive use of the libraries at the University of the South, Sewanee, and at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and offer my thanks to the staff at both for their help, especially during the challenges of the pandemic. The University of the South provided funding for my visit to Germany and granted me a leave of absence to work on this project.
I wrote this book while living on the unceded territory of the Arapaho. I pay my respects to elders past, present, and emerging.
Thank you, reader, for spending time with the sounds, living beings, ideas, and places imperfectly evoked by these words. I offer the book as an invitation to both wonder and action, guided by your own listening.
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