David Quammen
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David Quammen is an American writer focusing on science, nature, and travel. He is the author of fifteen books. Quammen's articles have appeared in Outside, National Geographic, Harper's Magazine, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, and other periodicals. He is also a science communicator.
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If you can repair your future child's myopia with preemptive genetic tinkering, you might also want to increase her I.Q. by a few dozen points.
"Clone Your Troubles Away: Dreaming at the Frontiers of Animal Husbandry", Harper's Magazine (February 2005)
People come into our lives and then they go out again. The entropy law, as applied to human relations.
"Chambers of Memory," The Flight of the Iguana (1988)
Raphus cucullatus had become rare unto death. But this one flesh-and-blood individual still lived.
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (1996), p. 275.
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George MonbiotAlso won Natural World Book Prize
Marilynne RobinsonAlso won PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
Peter MatthiessenAlso won John Burroughs MedalCynthia OzickAlso won PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
William BeebeAlso won John Burroughs Medal
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