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Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Quotes: His interest, after all, was not in the origin of species but in their demise.
         

His interest, after all, was not in the origin of species but in their demise.


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His interest, after all, was not in the origin of species but in their demise.
         



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