“perhaps a millionth or a billionth of the sea’s darkness.” Kunzig, p. 47.
“tube worms over ten feet long . . .” Attenborough, The Living Planet, p. 30.
“Before this it had been thought . . .” National Geographic, “Deep Sea Vents,” October 2000, p. 123.
“enough to bury every bit of land . . .” Dennis, p. 248.
“it can take up to ten million years . . .” Vogel, p. 182.
“our psychological remoteness from the ocean depths . . .” Engel, The Sea, p. 183.
“When they failed to sink . . .” Kunzig, pp. 294-305.
“Blue whales will sometimes break off a song . . .” Sagan, p. 225.
“Consider the fabled giant squid.” Good Weekend, “Armed and Dangerous,” July 15, 2000, p. 35.
“as many as thirty million species . . .”Time, “Call of the Sea,” October 5, 1998, p. 60.
“Even at a depth of three miles . . .” Kunzig, pp. 104-5.
“Altogether less than a tenth of the ocean . . .”Economist survey, “The Sea,” May 23, 1998, p. 4.
“doesn’t even make it into the top fifty . . .” Flannery, The Future Eaters, p. 104.
“Many fishermen ‘fin’ sharks . . .” Audubon, May-June 1998, p. 54.
“nets big enough to hold a dozen jumbo jets.” Time, “The Fish Crisis,” August 11, 1997, p. 66.
“We’re still in the Dark Ages.” Economist, “Pollock Overboard,” January 6, 1996, p. 22.
“Perhaps as much as twenty-two million metric tons . . .”Economist survey, “The Sea,” May 23, 1998, p. 12.
“Large areas of the North Sea floor . . .” Outside, December 1997, p. 62.
“By 1990 this had sunk to 22,000 metric tons . . .” Economist survey, “The Sea,” May 23, 1998, p. 8.
“Fishermen . . . had caught them all.” Kurlansky, Cod, p. 186.
“had not staged a comeback” Nature, “How Many More Fish in the Sea?” October 17, 2002, p. 662.
“‘fish’ is ‘whatever is left.’ ” Kurlansky, p. 138.
“90 percent of lobsters are caught . . .” New York Times magazine, “A Tale of Two Fisheries,” August 27, 2000, p. 40.
“As many as fifteen million of them . . .” BBC Horizon transcript, “Antarctica: The Ice Melts,” p. 16.
CHAPTER 19 THE RISE OF LIFE
“After a few days, the water in the flasks . . .” Earth, “Life’s Crucible,” February 1998, p. 34.
“Repeating Miller’s experiments . . .” Ball, p. 209.
“as many as a million types of protein . . .” Discover, “The Power of Proteins,” January 2002, p. 38.
“the odds against all two hundred . . .” Crick, Life Itself, p. 51.
“Hemoglobin is only 146 amino acids long . . .” Sulston and Ferry, The Common Thread, p. 14.
“DNA is a whiz at replicating . . .” Margulis and Sagan, p. 63.
“If everything needs everything else . . .” Davies, p. 71.
“some kind of cumulative selection process . . .” Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, p. 45.
“Lots of molecules in nature get together . . .” Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, p. 115.
