News Headline

Biodiversity is more than just beauty: 'It is the very apparatus that holds us steady'

Source
Genetic Literacy Project

Publication Date
2018-02-28

A small boy hauls enthusiastically on his fishing rod. The line flies up and a needle-spined fish strikes him in the eye. Desperate to stay outdoors, he ignores the pain, but his sight deteriorates over the following months. He continues to pursue his love of nature but, now blind in one eye, he is confined to studying creatures that are easy to see: insects. He grows to become the global authority on ants, and in later life is given the moniker ‘the father of biodiversity’.

Content
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2018/03/01/biodiversity-just-beauty-apparatus-holds-us-steady/