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'Man is an endangered species,' announces one of the titles at the beginning of the sci-fi lump 'Battlefield Earth.' And after about 20 minutes of this amateurish picture, extinction doesn't seem like such a bad idea. Elvis Mitchell

We're a very imaginative species; we're very good at creating fictions. Emma Mackey

Good Very Fictions Creating Species Imaginative

The Ocean Health Index is like the thermometer of the ocean. It will allow us to take the temperature to know what is going on at the global level, trying to integrate different impacts, including overfishing, invasive species, coastal development, and climate change. Enric Sala

Health Change Will Ocean Temperature Impacts Take Allow Development Like Global Know Climate Climate Change Integrate Trying Going Different Us Coastal Including Thermometer Species Level

I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location. Ernst Mayr

Indeed Location Rank Classified Having Had Most Reached Peripheral Occasionally Isolated Occurred Often Again Separate Even Population Found Species

Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential. Ernst Mayr

Few Innovations Evolutionary Rapid Give Ecological Inventions Potential Physiological Most Make Improved Behavioral May Doomed Them Species Competitive Extinction

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations. Ernst Mayr

Change Claim Claimed Evolutionary Rapid Small Major Geneticist Most Does Occur Theory Novelty Species Founder Widespread

We need to emphasize the more positive aspects of our species. Everett McGill

Positive Our More Emphasize Aspects Species Need

I was born in an Ilokano village called Cabugawan. Most of the houses in it were roofed with thatch, pan-aw, a species of wild grass. F. Sionil Jose

Grass Wild Born Most Houses Were Village Species

We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion. Farley Mowat

Smile God Good Will Somewhere Important Last-Minute Our Correct Minute Some Misconception Delusion Errors Going Us Gross Species Last

I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often. Farley Mowat

What prevails in every corner of this globalized world is the real struggle of our species for its own survival. Fidel Castro

Struggle Survival World Own Every Corner Our Prevails Real Species

The San Gabriel Mountains rise like a rampart at the edge of the city, safeguarding more than 500,000 acres of mature forests, mountain streams, dramatic waterfalls, and towering peaks that reach over 9,000 feet. These untamed places attract bighorn sheep, mountain lions, and other threatened or endangered species. Frances Beinecke

Edge Sheep Mountains Other Dramatic Rampart City Threatened Rise More Over Towering Feet Like Reach Attract Safeguarding Forests Mountain Mature Endangered Than Endangered Species Lions Gabriel San Places Acres Species Streams Peaks

We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult. Frances McDormand

Ourselves No Desire Perceiving Adult Red How Species Desire Alert

It is interesting that the U.S. has this very strong proportion of the population that rejects scientific conclusions about the age of the Earth and about evolutionary relationships between species, including humans. Francis Collins

Age Strong Relationships Earth Evolutionary About Proportion Between Scientific Conclusions Very Interesting Including Population Species Humans Rejects

If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity was to be a good-looking single person between 20 and 35, with excellent muscle-definition and/or an excellent figure, and a large disposable income. Francis Spufford

The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditional love received from pets, and the lack of artifice in the relationship, contrast sharply with the much trickier dealings with members of their own species. Frans de Waal

Love Relationship Joy Animals Own Tremendous Members Intuitive Unconditional Unconditional Love Feel Sharply Source Contrast Artifice Lack Children Much Connection Pets Species Received

I've always been anti-marriage for men until they become mature. As a species we don't mature until we're in our 60s. Gene Simmons

Men Become Our Until Always Been Mature Species

Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction. George Gaylord Simpson

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