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<p>Two decades ago as a first year PhD student in an evolutionary biology program, I presented a proposal for research on ocean wildlife, specifically endangered sea turtles. My plan included people. Humans have evolved alongside the ocean and are the primary, if not sole, driver of sea turtle extinction. So, to my mind, it followed that any intelligent research project would encompass the “human dimension”. Not so, the wise men said. They told me people were not readily included in the study of life on earth.</p>
<p> In my field of marine biology, words like holistic, integrated, synergistic, networked, collaborative, interdisciplinary, innovative and passionate were not commonly used and elicit eye rolls, sarcasm and cynicism.</p>
<p> Times are changing. Rebecca Costas’ book, <em>The Watchman’s Rattle</em>, is the latest in a wave of contributions to connecting evolutionary biology, biodiversity conservation and cognitive neuroscience in a mosaic that challenges the mostly unsuccessful status quo, and provides a way for thinking people to feel hopeful, as well as the way forward for a variety of interdisciplinary projects.</p>
<p> The big ideas in Costas’ writing go beyond connecting disjunct disciplines in the quest for real solutions. At the core is the exploration of love and fear. She also looks at our need to deeply understand and appreciate the intricacies and power of our emotional selves, when paired with reason and creativity. Our need to take over the language of love and fear as a force for healing, reconnecting and restoring what is broken on our planet is crucial. Our need to delve the depths of the mind-nature relationship and translate our findings into actions for land and sea is now our human imperative.</p>
<p>It is my hope that this is just the beginning of more reasonable people in respectable positions speaking increasingly in public places about love: our love of the ocean, our love of the trees and animals, our love of each other. Rebecca Costa may have helped us start to reframe something <br />truly great, The Revolutionary SuperMeme of Love.</p>
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<p>Two decades ago as a first year PhD student in an evolutionary biology program, I presented a proposal for research on ocean wildlife, specifically endangered sea turtles. My plan included people. Humans have evolved alongside the ocean and are the primary, if not sole, driver of sea turtle extinction. So, to my mind, it followed that any intelligent research project would encompass the “human dimension”. Not so, the wise men said. They told me people were not readily included in the study of life on earth.</p>
<p> In my field of marine biology, words like holistic, integrated, synergistic, networked, collaborative, interdisciplinary, innovative and passionate were not commonly used and elicit eye rolls, sarcasm and cynicism.</p>
<p> Times are changing. Rebecca Costas’ book, <em>The Watchman’s Rattle</em>, is the latest in a wave of contributions to connecting evolutionary biology, biodiversity conservation and cognitive neuroscience in a mosaic that challenges the mostly unsuccessful status quo, and provides a way for thinking people to feel hopeful, as well as the way forward for a variety of interdisciplinary projects.</p>
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<p>It is my hope that this is just the beginning of more reasonable people in respectable positions speaking increasingly in public places about love: our love of the ocean, our love of the trees and animals, our love of each other. Rebecca Costa may have helped us start to reframe something <br />truly great, The Revolutionary SuperMeme of Love.</p>
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