For Three Million Years We Were Hunter-gatherers,

The Problem Of The Apes Is Not A Shortage Of Money, It Is A Shortage Of Strategy. Let Us Devote Our Minds... The One Thing We Have More Of Than Other Apes... And Let's Secure Their Future.

Whether Or Not All This Came To Pass In An East African Ditch, I Wouldn't Like To Say. Perhaps It Happened In North Africa Or Further West, But Africa Was Definitely The Place.

Culture Represents A Novelty In The World Of Nature, And It Could Have Added An Effective, Unifying Edge To The Forces Of Natural Selection.

The Problem Is That During The 1980s, A Decade Of Heavy Poaching, The Elephants Retreated To Safer Areas. And Now People Have Moved Into The Corridors Once Used By The Elephants.

It Has Taken Biologists Some 230 Years To Identify And Describe Three Quarters Of A Million Insects; If There Are Indeed At Least Thirty Million, As Erwin (terry Erwin, The Smithsonian Institute) Estimates, Then, Working As They Have In The Past, Insect Taxonomists Have Ten Thousand Years Of Employment Ahead Of Them. Ghilean Prance, Director Of The Botanical Gardens In Kew, Estimates That A Complete List Of Plants In The Americas Would Occupy Taxonomists For Four Centuries, Again Working At Historical Rates.