“If you count people as an invasive species – the science writer Alan Burdick has called Homo sapiens “arguably the most successful invader in biological history” – the process goes back a hundred and twenty thousand years or so, to the period when modern humans first migrated out of Africa.”

“If you count people as an invasive species – the science writer Alan Burdick has called Homo sapiens “arguably the most successful invader in biological history” – the process goes back a hundred and twenty thousand years or so, to the period when modern humans first migrated out of Africa.”

— Elizabeth Kolbert