Genome (The Extinction Files, #2)

by A.G. Riddle

but the truce didn’t stop the biologists from name-calling. The archaeologists were referred to as the polar bears—or simply “da bears.” The archaeology labs were the “polar bear cages,” arguments with them were “bear attacks,” and delivering bone samples was “feeding the bears.”

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We call that event the appearance of “behaviorally modern” humans.

pound of brain tissue uses twenty times the amount of energy a pound of muscle does.

three-hundred-pound marsupial lions,

This global die-off is called the Quaternary extinction event.

Capitalism provided a platform—a societal construct, if you will—for distributing value across a population, in particular to reward minds that imagined and implemented things that brought advantage to others.

There were two types of people who adopted troubled children: devils and saints.