3 Quotes & Sayings By Quammen

David Quammen is the author of ten books, including The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, a New York Times bestseller that was based on his Pulitzer Prize–winning New Yorker article, "In Search of the Ancestors of Everyone," and The Song of the Dodo. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his family.

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The dodo itself stands as the best emblem of this general truth - that insular evolution often involves transforming an adventurous, high-flying ancestor species into a grounded descendant, no longer capable of going anywhere but extinct. It's our reminder that insular evolution, for all its wondrousness, tends to be a one-way tunnel toward doom. Quammen
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Insularity plus time yields divergence. Quammen