Both Elisabeth Vrba's colleague and the Canadian writer of Snow (Beattie short story) have the profession of writer in common. This Elisabeth Vrba's colleague was who she coined the word exaptation with.
 He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation. 
Ann Beattie (born September 8, 1947) is an American novelist and short story writer. 
 She is well known for developing the Turnover Pulse Hypothesis, as well as coining the word exaptation with colleague Stephen Jay Gould. 
"Snow" (1986) is a neorealist short story by Ann Beattie. 
