and electrical measurements in singing birds reveal the latter. Image credit: Jeffrey Markowitz; birds adapted from NeilsPhotography, Flickr. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002159.g001

, Laurent Freidel, and Jeffrey Morton [10]. I am sincerely grateful to each of these collaborators. I am indebted to Xiao–Song Lin, first because his work on the loop braid group was the impetus for our work on exotic statistics. I also owe a him a great debt of gratitude for all that I learned from him

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