Elizabeth Kolbert quotes - page 2

I did not mean to suggest that autism could be traced to Neanderthal genes. The point is that some genes that have been implicated in autism changed pretty significantly between the time Neanderthal line and human line split. (Elizabeth Kolbert)
Neanderthals were pretty smart, and if we actively killed them off, then probably we did so in the same way that humans kill each other. View quote
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We're talking really huge global-scale change, and I did not feel that I had the prescription for that kind of action, so I'm going to leave it to the reader. View quote
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We can't say that when x happens we get a mass extinction. To the extent we understand mass extinction, one has been caused by glaciation event, one has been caused by a massive climate change, and one has been caused by an asteroid. These events turn out to have no precedent. View quote
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You've got to do everything, everything's got to be pointing in the same direction and you've got to really turn this whole economic engine from one that's based on fossil fuels to one that isn't. View quote
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The definition, I suppose, would be many, many organisms across many, many different groups. And that is, really, what we are seeing and that is what makes scientists fear ... that we're in a mass extinction. ... About a quarter of all mammals are considered endangered. ... About 40 percent of all amphibians are considered endangered. But we're also seeing organisms, invertebrates, for example, are endangered ... many species of reef-building corals are now considered very, very endangered... View quote
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I think what all nonfiction writers are aiming for is to make people think about things differently - to tell you a story from somewhere that, if you're vaguely familiar with it, challenges what you think you know about it, or, if it's a story you've never heard before, introduces you to a whole new place or a whole new idea. I'm basically trying to tilt your worldview a little bit. View quote
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