About the Authors

Aaron Novick

aanovick@gmail.com (AN); ford@dal.ca (WFD)

Affiliations Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

W. Ford Doolittle

aanovick@gmail.com (AN); ford@dal.ca (WFD)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.