My Other Great Mentor Apart From Bob Trivers Was Dick Alexander

Dick Alexander was a pioneer when it came to understanding the evolutionary nature of humans and in many ways I think he has not yet gotten his due for how far sighted he was. He had created an environment that was intellectually very rigorous, very open-minded and people fled there. There was almost no place where people were particularly clear headed. The insect division was weirdly populated by people who were studying birds, some of them were studying dolphins, yes there were some studying insects, there were people studying apes. And so the question was what the heck was going on? Why did the insect division accumulate all of these people who weren't particularly thinking about insects? So I became a kind of refugee