Word: gould
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Professor of Geology Stephen J. Gould was pulled into the debate when one of his theories was cited in a editorial supporting the building of the observatory--which some say will destroy the habitat of a rare subspecies of red squirrels...
...June 7, 1990, Wall Street Journal opinion piece by Michael D. Copeland, entitled "No Red Squirrels? Mother Nature May Be Better Off," Gould is paraphrased as arguing that 99 percent of all species will become extinct eventually...
Arguing that his theories had been misrepresented, Gould blasted the editorial in last month's issue of Natural History...
...that we should let the squirrels go (at our immediate scale) because all species eventually die (at geological scales) makes about as much sense as arguing that we shouldn't treat an easily curable childhood infection because all humans are ultimately and inevitably mortal," Gould writes...
...Gould argues that Mt. Graham should be preserved rather than developed. One reason, Gould says, is the existence of the red squirrel population, which is interesting to students of evolution because it is isolated in the southern-most region where the species is found...