Climate change: We have never faced a more critical time on our planet

In the area of species protection, we should concern ourselves with what is right as opposed to what might be easier, or popular in the short term.

Climate change: We have never faced a more critical time on our planet

Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of plaster of Paris', thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to.

To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.

Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

The problem of the apes is not a shortage of money, it is a shortage of strategy. Let us devote our minds... the one thing we have more of than other apes... and let's secure their future.