>It's an amazing epitome of evolutionary success... And so is every other species. We've all been evolving together on this planet for the same amount of time.

>It's an amazing epitome of evolutionary success... And so is every other species. We've all been evolving together on this planet for the same amount of time. This is why driving species to extinction is so spectacularly stupid — it squanders our collective legacy of genetic information, hard-won over billions of years of struggle. How many discoveries like this will never be made because we destroyed the species? Worse, how many useful functional species are we depriving ourselves of (including functions we don't even know we need yet)?