A Request For The Design Hive Mind: Vote For A Tangled Bank Book Cover

[Update 4:30 pm: I left off one of the covers (Tiktaalik3) from the original poll. You can re-vote now.]

Greetings, readers. I write to you from that frenzy towards the end of writing a book when everything has to be done at once and the sight of the incoming pincers makes me freeze like a deer in the…pincers. See, I can’t even come up with a good metaphor right now.

As some of you may recall, I’m writing a non-majors textbook called The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution. The book includes the nuts and bolts of selection and drift, along with the origin of complex traits, coevolution, sex (lots of sex), medicine, human behavior (and nonhuman), and the fearsome hand

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