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If You Watch Animals Objectively For Any Length Of Time, You're Driven To The Conclusion That Their Main Aim In Life Is To Pass On Their Genes To The Next Generation.

Fundamentally Not To Waste Energy. If We Were All To Reduce Our Demands For Energy, It Would Make An Enormous Amount Of Difference.

Humanity Is Facing A Very Big, Slow, Long, Drawn-out Threat, And That Is To Do With The Way The Weather Is Changing And The Size Of The Population.

Terrorism Is An Immediate Problem That People Are Very Concerned About, And I Am As Concerned About That As Anyone Else. But It Isn't An Either Or Situation.

The Most Extraordinary Thing About Trying To Piece Together The Missing Links In The Evolutionary Story Is That When You Do Find A Missing Link And Put It In The Story, You Suddenly Need All These Other Missing Links To Connect To The New Discovery. The Gaps And Questions Actually Increase - It's Extraordinary.