Chapter 1 Preface

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1.1 Acknowledgements

I would like to thank the teaching assistants Naomi Ziv, Darach Miller and Grace Avecilla who helped me develop the course upon which this book is based. Writing this textbook was started during a sabbatical I spent at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research in Perth, Australia and was made possible by a grant from the National Science Foudation.

1.2 About the author

David Gresham is a Professor of Biology at New York Uniiversity. He runs a evolutionary molecular genetics laboratory at NYU Center for Genomics and Systems Biology. Comments and questions should be addressed to .

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.

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