Christopher R. Donohue cofounded the History of Genomics Program in 2012 and served as the historian of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health until 2025. He is coeditor, with Charles Wolfe, of Vitalism and Its Legacy in Twentieth Century Life Sciences and Philosophy.

Alan C. Love is Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Philosophy and Winton Chair in the Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, as well as director of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science. He is coeditor of Beyond the Meme: Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution (Minnesota, 2019).