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There’s a voice that says: "So what?"
It’s not my voice, it’s probably not yours, but it makes itself heard in the arenas of public opinion, querulous and smug and fortified by just a little knowledge, which as always is a dangerous thing. "So what if a bunch of species go extinct?" It says. "Extinction is a natural process. Darwin himself said so, didn’t he? Extinction is the complement of evolution, making room for new species to evolve. There have always been extinctions. So why worry about t
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― The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
― The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
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One final note on the biogeographic divisions of the world. The very feature that stunned Buffon and his contemporaries, and eventually led to the revolutionary insights that would define the field of biogeography—the evolutionary distinctiveness of different regions—is now waning in the face of the geographic and ecological advance of one species: our own. Few taxa and regions across the globe have escaped the biotic homogenization caused by humanity. Regional biotas are becoming increasingly s
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― Biogeography: A Very Short Introduction
― Biogeography: A Very Short Introduction
The primary topic of the book club is Marine/Aquatic Ichthyology and Invertebrate Zoology. Book …more
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