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“A supposedly daring insight came up, disguised as a question: Dr. Cole, aren't humans the most invasive species of all? She'd fielded that one many times before, during public lectures and even in her days as a teaching assistant [...] 'I'm not unsympathetic to that line of thinking,' she answered, 'but even if it's true, we're also the only species in any position to do anything about it.”

Invasive Species Conservation Biology

Book:Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Volume 132, Issue 6, June 2012

Source: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Volume 132, Issue 6, June 2012

“Human material culture - the buildings and roads and works that would strike any human as an obvious sign of intelligence - had for years seemed like part of an elaborate mating ritual to the starlings, useless and flamboyant as the peacock's tail.”

Perspective Civil Engineering Mating Rituals Mating Ritual Social Anthropology

Book:Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Volume 132, Issue 6, June 2012

Source: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Volume 132, Issue 6, June 2012

“It wasn't that he seemed at all violent - rather, he had a peculiar unhinged intensity that told her that to challenge him would mean hearing him defend his hypothesis for the next forty minutes.”

Overconfidence Social Anthropology

Book:Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Volume 132, Issue 6, June 2012

Source: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Volume 132, Issue 6, June 2012