For Three Million Years We Were Hunter-gatherers,

To Investigate The History Of Man's Development, The Most Important Finds Are, Of Course, Hominid Fossils.

To Me It's A Question Of Being Able To Look Backward And Give The Present A Root... To Give Meaning To Where We Are Today, We Need To Look At Where We Have Come From.

The Problem Is That During The 1980s, A Decade Of Heavy Poaching, The Elephants Retreated To Safer Areas. And Now People Have Moved Into The Corridors Once Used By The Elephants.

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.

My Father Used To Say That, Through Culture, Humans Effectively Domesticated Themselves.