Poison Darts: Protecting the Biodiversity of Our World

The first half of this book contains a not so serious adventure story involving a group of off-center intellectuals and their efforts to acquire and protect tropical hot spots around the globe. Although fictional, the tale serves as a matrix in which real sets of solutions have been embedded. This is followed by a collection of nonfiction essays discussing nature, human nature, evolutionary biology, and the synthesis between them that has put in motion the sixth great extinction event in the history of our planet.