Editing a book on editing has a certain tongue in cheek connotation to it, and I must admit that I was not aware what the job truly entailed when the project started. However, over the many months that it took to complete the book, it was interesting to realize that indeed printing-type editing and biological editing have many matching characteristics. Therefore, the quote by the well-known ? lm editor Verna Fields (1918 1982), I wish the word editing had never been invented, editing implies correcting, and it s not, can function as a motto for the book: the various biological phenomena that...