Image source: Ami Vitale – National Geographic Creative
“What’s lost when an animal goes extinct? One way to think of species, be it of ape or an ant, is an answer to a puzzle: how to live on planet earth. A species’ genome is a sort of a manual: when the species perishes, that manual is lost. We are, in this sense, plundering a library – the library of life.”
Elizabeth Kolbert, National Geographic
Image source: Ami Vitale – National Geographic Creative
“What’s lost when an animal goes extinct? One way to think of species, be it of ape or an ant, is an answer to a puzzle: how to live on planet earth. A species’ genome is a sort of a manual: when the species perishes, that manual is lost. We are, in this sense, plundering a library – the library of life.”
Elizabeth Kolbert, National Geographic