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Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work.

Thomas Lovejoy

Conservation is sometimes perceived as stopping everything cold, as holding whooping cranes in higher esteem than people. It is up to science to spread the understanding that the choice is not between wild places or people. Rather, it is between a rich or an impoverished existence for Man.

Thomas Lovejoy

Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones.

Thomas Lovejoy

Thomas Lovejoy

Thomas Lovejoy

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Born: August 22, 1941

Died: December 25, 2021 (aged 80)

Bio: Thomas E. Lovejoy, "the Godfather of Biodiversity," was a Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation and University Professor in the Environmental Science and Policy department at George Mason University.

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