If he and Voltaire and all the other literary «smugglers» of the same grand,
ancient truth are wrong, which I doubt, if there
really is no afterlife, nothing, zero, zilch, at least there'll be no more intolerable suffering amond humans or among the sentient
creatures we call «beasts.»
When it comes to identifying the migrations and movements of
ancient seafarers and the
creatures they may have carried with them, «our results
really just scratch the surface,» he says.