"It has taken biologists some 230 years to……" — Richard Leakey
"It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at least thirty million, as Erwin (Terry Erwin, the Smithsonian Institute) estimates, then, working as they have in the past, insect taxonomists have ten thousand years of employment ahead of them. Ghilean Prance, director of the Botanical Gardens in Kew, estimates that a complete list of plants in the Americas would occupy taxonomists for four centuries, again working at historical rates."
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Richard Leakey
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43 Quotes by Richard Leakey
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My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.
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It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors.
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The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.
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Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs…
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