Word: speciesism
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Australia is home to 166 of the 370 species of shark in the world, but only four types are carnivorous. The last time a shark killed a swimmer in the harbor was 1963, and local marine scientists say the water will be too cold for sharks during the Games. This...
When it comes to asteroids' wreaking disaster on Earth, the real question is not if, but when. Two hundred or so large craters and a geological record stretching over billions of years provide ample evidence that, time and again, explosive impacts by asteroids or comets have devastated large parts of...
As scary as this seems, disaster is not inevitable. For after nearly 4 billion years of life on Earth, a species has evolved that can prevent the next catastrophic encounter--if it has the will to do so. That species is us.
We take it for granted that human beings are the pinnacle of the living world, that Homo sapiens is nature's most advanced and magnificently burnished product. And since numerous lines of evidence testify that our species is the result of a long evolutionary history, we tend to assume that...
Well, not to worry. As seductive as such extrapolations may be, they overlook what we know about how evolution works. In particular, they buy into the idea that evolution consists of a sort of generation-by-generation fine-tuning in each population as time passes. Under the benign guidance of...