Goodreads asked Philip A. Loring:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Philip A. Loring The ideas in this book come from a long series of experiences working as an early career anthropologist and ecologist. When I started studying ecology in graduate school, I fell in love with the metaphors I encountered: mutualism, keystone, engineer, niche. But, at first glance, they also discouraged me. Why do all other species enjoy such elegant interactions? Why is humanity excluded? I set out to learn why. The answer, I learned, is that we are not excluded. We’ve self-selected ourselves from these ways of life because of the myths we believe about who we are.

It took me many years to get to a place in my own personal journey where I could write this book. I first started trying in 2014, but I quickly realized that I still wasn't ready. In 2018, a move to southern Ontario created the perfect space, both physically and mentally, to take it back up and create FINDING OUR NICHE.

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