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�It is probably a healthy exercise, when considering the extinction of species in this age, to remember that many thousands of life forms have ceased to exist from wholly natural causes -- dinosaurs spring invariably to mind. And further that some organisms -- especially primitive forms, which, as it were, are �past their prime� -- will pass into oblivion, both without human assistance and in spite of it.� - from The Birdwatcher�s Companion, page 229, authored by Christopher Leahy of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, 1982.) |