Not exact matches
There is still much for us
to discover and I think that propels us as a
species to continue uncovering new truths every
day.
The conservation status of a
species is an indicator of the likelihood of that
species continuing to survive either in the present
day or the future.
First of all, when Johanson and Tom Gray discovered Lucy in 1974, it prompted a decades long search for more information about her
species, Australopithecus afarensis, that
continues to this
day and since then our researchers have unearthed an enormous amount of information about who Lucy was, who her
species was, where it lived, how it behaved; and so that's one aspect of Lucy's legacy.
Please note the UN now estimates that world population will peak at around 9 billion at mid-century; world oil consumption goes up every year and yet proven reserves
continue to expand; global coolers have morphed into global warmers; of the 100
species allegedly extinguishing per
day — name one that went extinct today — or even during the last 5 years.