“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
“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