Well, no relevant education, no degrees of any description, autodidact including professionally, 40+ years of practical experience in engineering and design, curious and original thinker, a certain amount of hubris, as I said, an outlier; practically writes itself;) Considering publishing here just to “plant the flag”, came to Medium on the advice of a client who is a writer/consultant, going to start working with another client who’s a coding nerd/mathematician to demonstrate the code functions I’m talking about. Given my total lack of credentials in the field (genetics/evolution) publishing in a “popular” venue seemed more likely than submitting to a science journal, feeling that they are pretty sticky about those creds.