The Problem Of The Apes Is Not

To Have Arrived On This Earth As A Product Of A Biological Accident, Only To Depart Through Human Arrogance, Would Be The Ultimate Irony.

The Language Of Art Is Powerful To Those Who Understand It, And Puzzling To Those Who Do Not. What We Do Know Is That Here Was The Modern Human Mind At Work, Spinning Symbolism And Abstraction In A Way That Only Homo Sapiens Is Capable Of Doing.

When Out Fossil Hunting, It Is Very Easy To Forget That Rather Than Telling You How The Creatures Lived, The Remains You Find Indicate Only Where They Became Fossilized.

It Seems Inconceivable That A Species Of Human Could Possess Fully Modern Language And Not Be Fully Modern In All Other Ways, Too. For This Reason, The Evolution Of Language Is Widely Judged To Be The Culminating Event In The Emergence Of Humanity As We Know It Today.

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.