Word: speciesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In the middle of the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, the island of Mauritius took several million years to develop animal forms that exist nowhere else in the world. But what nature can accomplish in eons, humanity can undo in millenniums, and that is exactly what the species Homo sapiens...
Yet there can be no doubt that the star athlete can and does exist at Harvard. They've never manufactured jocks at Cambridge, and they're not about to start now. "Athletic scholarship" is not in the vocabulary, "first round draft pick" a rare species.
The foreign tourist, a species once limited to corporate tycoons and wandering rock stars, is abroad in the land. Direct flights from Tokyo to San Francisco are booked solid for the next three weeks, and the number of Japanese visitors to Las Vegas now runs to about 5,000 a...
After six baleful, bitter years, a full 16 seasons after Willie Mays & Co. brought them their first West Coast pennant in 1962, the Giants for most of 1978 have been leading the league in a ding-dong race. Giant fans, regarded as an endangered species likely to be spotted only...
Thus, unlike many of his colleagues, Leakey does not believe that modern man is necessarily programmed for Armageddon. Other species faded and died out simply because they had no choice. "But in our case," says the Anthro- pologist, "extinction would be entirely of our own making, the result of being...