Brittany Sears is the Operations Manager of the Evolution Institute and Managing Editor of Cliodynamics: the Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of South Florida, where she studied host-parasite interactions and co-evolution between tadpoles and their flatworm parasites. Although her work for the Evolution Institute is decidedly more symbiosis-oriented than parasitic, she still enjoys pantomiming anti-parasite behavior and discussing why man flu is real. A list of her publications is available on Google Scholar.