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He has devoted most of his scientific work to development of an evolutionary approach to problems of sleep medicine and to neurodegenerative diseases. Titles in the series will focus on applied and clinical implications of evolutionary approaches to the whole range of brain and behavioral disorders. Contributions are solicited from leading figures in the fields of interest to the series. Each volume will cover the basics, define the terms, and analyze the full range of issues and findings relevant to the clinical disorder or topic that is the focus of the volume. Each volume will demonstrate how the application of evolutionary modes of analysis leads to new insights on causes of disorder and functional breakdowns in brain and behavior relationships. Each volume, furthermore, will be aimed at both popular and professional audiences and will be written in a style appropriate for the general reader, the local and university libraries, and graduate and undergraduate students. The publications that become part of this series will therefore bring the gold discovered by scientists using evolutionary methods to understand brain and behavior to the attention of the general public, and ultimately, it is hoped, to those families and individuals currently suffering from those most intractable of disorders— the brain and behavioral disorders. Acknowledgments To my colleagues in forensic investigative sciences: With your remarkable contributions as interdisciplinary-trained forensic investigative scientists, forensic science has become without question the most important of all applied sciences of the 21st century. Thanks to my students for permission to use your excellent essays appearing at the end of each of the four parts of the book. Even though you will remain anonymous, your insightful essays provided moments of truth for my Brainmarks Paradigm. Thanks to Kate Garrett in the early stages of the manuscript for your review and helpful suggestions. To all my students across three decades: I can never repay you for sharing with me the significance of your life in peer tribes, and through the years—25 and counting—to appreciate the workings of your brilliant sapient brains. You have taught me the real challenge for parents: listen more, learn more, and trust more. That ’ s quite an assignment.