BIOL 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Coevolution, Nature Reserve, Microsoft Onenote
12 Dec 2015
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Bioprospecting: seek new biological discoveries, "gold" = a discovery like penicillin. Biodiversity: variety among living species of the earth. 1. 4 - 1. 8 million confirmed species (fraction of those on earth, these are only confirmed) Systematists: scientists who specialize in describing and categorizing a particular group of organisms. Moral argument to succeed economical argument that tries to save endangered species: long- standing existence in nature is deemed to carry an unimpeachable right to continued existence. Some claim though that this is a developed-world luxury, those starving will be more concerned with placing food on their tables than preserving nature just to preserve nature ii. Ecosystem services that improve the condition of human life. Doesn"t pay yet, argument that one day nature can represent the future while others think given time, humans will just replicate the same benefits nature could give us through our own technology.
