Ritual Disposal Of The Dead

The World's Five Thousand Extant Languages Are Products Of Our Shared Ability, But The Five Thousand Cultures They Create Are Separate From Each Other.

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.

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.

We Are Bipedal Apes, And It Should Not Be Surprising To See That Fact Reflected In The Way Our Ancestors Lived.

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.