TWO MYTHS
We love to think we know. We even love to think we know of a Benjamin Franklin counter-proposal nominating a different species. We are so wrong.
Jack E. Davis is the author of the award-winning The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea and An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century. A professor of environmental history at the University of Florida, he lives in Florida and New Hampshire.