ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
That I should write this book was clear in the
minds of my editors, Abel Gerschenfeld and Ravi Mirchandani, long
before I had even started. I am grateful for their gentle prodding.
Abel in particular showed great persuasive power, was patient enough
to read many different versions, and always trusted me to produce
something readable, a real triumph of hope over experience. I must
also express my deep gratitude to a number of people whom I coaxed
or coerced into imparting their knowledge and intuitions, perfecting
or rejecting many versions of each argument, reading and correcting
parts or even the whole of the original manuscript, and generally
helping me better understand all these complicated issues: Anne de
Sales, Brian Malley, Carlo Severi, Charles Ramble, Dan Sperber, E.
Thomas Lawson, Harvey Whitehouse, Ilkka Pyssiäinen, John Tooby,
Justin Barrett, Leda Cosmides, Michael Houseman, Paolo Sousa,
Pascale Michelon, Robert McCauley, Ruth Lawson.
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