• Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.

    David Quammen: Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.
    David Quammen (1996). “The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions”, Vintage