Both Elisabeth Vrba's colleague, who she coined the word exaptation with, and Ann Beattie have a profession in common.
 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. 
