[Taxacom] Biodiversity and Species Value

[Curtis Clark]

On 6/10/2010 10:51 PM, Haas, Fabian wrote:
> Oh yes, the more fur and feathers or nice cute eyes they have (limit there is two eyes) the easier it is to get funding. Why research on Gorillas? Quite clear what needs to be done, but they are so cute! (Nothing against Gorillas, they must be protected, but in terms of research we are already in the range of footnote to footnotes, nothing essential to be found, esp not in terms of conservation)
>    
Although I generally agree with the viewpoints of Doug Yanega and John 
Shuey, I make a species-selfish exception for the great apes. Having our 
outgroups around will allow us in the future to answer questions about 
ourselves that we haven't even thought of yet.

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