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The more recent, historic waves of extinctions of megafauna and other ecologically naive wildlife on oceanic islands followed the tract of colonizations by Pacific Islanders—ultimately exterminating at least seventeen of Madagascar’s largest lemurs and all of the ten or so species of New Zealand’s giant flightless birds—the moas. The saga of anthropogenic extinctions was repeated countless times across the marine realm as hundreds, and possibly thousands of species of flightless birds and other
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― Biogeography: A Very Short Introduction
― Biogeography: A Very Short Introduction
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There’s a voice that says: "So what?"
It’s not my voice, it’s probably not yours, but it makes itself heard in the arenas of public opinion, querulous and smug and fortified by just a little knowledge, which as always is a dangerous thing. "So what if a bunch of species go extinct?" It says. "Extinction is a natural process. Darwin himself said so, didn’t he? Extinction is the complement of evolution, making room for new species to evolve. There have always been extinctions. So why worry about t
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― The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
― The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
The primary topic of the book club is Marine/Aquatic Ichthyology and Invertebrate Zoology. Book …more
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