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Pushkin.

I never thought of myself really as a deep naturalist. I'm not the kind of person who studies bees and bugs and lizards. I'm not a studier of nature, but I love it. This is Adam Aaron. I think a lot of that had to do with my growing up in a rural place and having just nature spilling into the garden. Adam grew up in Swaziland in southern Africa.

There were monkeys jumping in the trees and birds and all sorts of things and it was just so proximal to me.

But Adam left the monkeys behind and moved to UC San Diego to start a neuroscience lab.

As a world expert on the neurobiology of movement,

he spent a lot of time thinking about things like Parkinson's disease,

and that meant that other big issues took a back seat.

I didn't know, of course, that we had an ecological crisis.

I knew, of course, about what was called global warming then

and now we referred to usually as global heating.

And I think even in the 1990s, then and now we refer to usually as global heating.

And I think even in the 1990s,

I remember being quite worried about it.

But I was just so busy kind of building my career

and doing things I loved and enjoyed,

and being a parent and writing papers and doing

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